Tobi roadmap update

Main stream publishing standards are being defined by ongoing DAISY-EPUB revision for facilitating accessible publishing in main stream, encouraging alignment of Tobi’s development path according to this transition.

The plan of development cycle is to implement the EPUB multimedia (EPUB 3) authoring work flows in Tobi, evolving it into an EPUB authoring tool. As an EPUB authoring tool, Tobi intends to cater to needs of broader audience and will be able to perform an important role of facilitating transition of DAISY membership to new EPUB 3 standards.

Along with providing support for new EPUB 3 standards, the development team will be working on implementing new features in Tobi, one of the most important being implementation of image description workflow in partnership with the DIAGRAM project. This will enable Tobi to author accessible graphics and provide access to diagrams, images and graphs to print-disabled.

Tobi team will like to hear comments, requests, feedback from existing and potential users of Tobi, in order to understand the real life expectations from the tool. We may not be able to satisfy your requests immediately but active feedback will help us define the development path of the project in long run.

Thanking all of you for your active support.
Avneesh Singh (on behalf of Tobi team)
asingh[@]daisy.org