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Tied-EasyReader logo What is Tied-EasyReader?

Tied-EasyReader is a new and innovative solution to allow anyone with a PC to access DAISY digital talking books, even if they don’t have their own DAISY playing software. With Tied-EasyReader, you can send DAISY books with a copy of EasyReader attached to them, allowing the recipient to benefit from the unique advantages that the DAISY format offers.

Why Tied-EasyReader?

A solution is required to allow producers to comply with the growing field of disability legislation (including the Disability Discrimination Act and the Disability Equality Duty in the UK and Section 508 in the US).

Tied-EasyReader is the ideal solution for any producer looking distribute their DAISY content. With Tied-EasyReader, producers of DAISY content can communicate more effectively with their colleagues, students, members of their business network, their customers or other stakeholders with visual impairments and specific learning disabilities.

Who Uses Tied-EasyReader?

Tied-EasyReader is used by a variety of different people. Educational publishers use Tied-EasyReader to provide digital versions of textbooks. Tied-EasyReader is also used within organisations to ensure the effective distribution of information. In addition, Tied-EasyReader is ideal for distributing newsletters and other information to a variety of people with different audio and visual preferences.

Benefits of Using Tied-EasyReader

With Tied-EasyReader, you can conveniently link your content to Dolphin’s software digital talking book player EasyReader.
Using Tied-EasyReader, you incur the minimal cost of supplying the DAISY player, meaning the reader acquires no cost at all
With Tied-EasyReader there is absolutely no need to rely on your readers having their own DAISY playing software to access information you send in DAISY format. All that is required is access to a PC with a Microsoft Windows operating system.
Tied-EasyReader always provides the user with the most recently updated version of Dolphin EasyReader, allowing readers to get the most out of the content.
You can customize the display settings in EasyReader when you send a file with a Tied-EasyReader, meaning your display settings can truly reflect the content which you are sending.

In addition, accessing information in DAISY format has a whole host of benefits for the reader.

DAISY is an international standard developed by a consortium of users and is therefore designed for the users
DAISY books are the world's fastest growing alternative format, with support from industry experts including RNIB, Microsoft and AltFormat.com
Material in DAISY format is hugely popular and completely accessible for people with visual and print impairments, for people with learning difficulties such as Dyslexia, for people learning a new language, and for people who suffer from low literacy levels.
EasyReader presents DAISY content as combined highlighted text and speech, providing an ideal learning media for print impaired and visually impaired people who are put off by text only materials
DAISY books enable dyslexic people to make the association between the spoken word and the corresponding text, improving their general literacy
Research from John Hopkins University in the US found that students can improve test scores by up to 40% when accessing course materials through a combined text and audio format such as DAISY digital talking books.
DAISY books are fully navigable, so users can skip forward or backward through their content, and bookmark important words and paragraphs.

Related Links

Visit our handy EasyReader FAQs to find out more about Tied-EasyReader
See how Publishers are making books available in DAISY format with Patterson's book 'The Jester'
Find out how you can produce your own DAISY content with Dolphin's Altformat tools EasyProducer, EasyConverter and Dolphin Publisher