Making good on last year’s announcement, Microsoft, Sonata Software, and the Digital Accessible Information Systems Consortium (DAISY) have launched the free "Save as DAISY XML" add-on for Microsoft Word 2007, 2003, and Word XP. The converter enables users to save Open XML documents as DAISY XML, a format that that makes text documents more accessible to blind or visually-impaired individuals, or users with various print disabilities.
DAISY has also released a new version of DAISY Pipeline, a free tool that converts between DAISY XML and DAISY Digital Talking Book (DTB) format.
