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Ten Years of the Marrakesh Treaty

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A decade ago, an international treaty came into force to help end the book famine for people with print disabilities.…

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Accessible STEM using MathCAT

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Mathematics is everywhere, from school textbooks and university courses to science, engineering and everyday life. Yet for many blind and…

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Dalia’s Journey: Improving Accessible Reading in Arabic

Illustration: a woman wearing a hijab and headphones sits in a library armchair, listening to an audiobook on a tablet, with a white cane beside her. The screen displays an AI-generated Arabic translation of an excerpt from “On Children” in The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran.
Dalia was born and raised in a North African country. Blind from an early age, she attended a school for…

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Marrakesh: Ten Years of Implementation

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In the ten years since the Marrakesh Treaty came into force, we have seen notable progress in how people with…

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Marrakesh: The Next Ten Years

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The Marrakesh Treaty has successfully created opportunities to access information in accessible formats and exchange these materials globally. The promise…

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Marrakesh: From Book Famine to Global Treaty

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In July of 2003 it was impossible to escape the news that Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix…

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Collaborative Easy-to-Read Production with AI and Human Experts

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A Production Methodology for Easy-to-Read Books Integrating Global Standards and AI The Easy-to-Read book consists of texts and images adapted…

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Smart Libraries: AI Use in South Korea

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Artificial Intelligence is rapidly reshaping how information is created, accessed and delivered. For libraries, this new technology presents many opportunities…

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30 Years of the DAISY Consortium

DAISY 30th Anniversary 1996-2026
Today, we celebrate an important milestone: 30 years of the DAISY Consortium. Let me briefly take you back to where…

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Do You Really Know DAISY?

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This year we celebrate DAISY’s 30th anniversary, and over that time the work of DAISY has touched the lives of…

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