The W3C Publishing Maintenance Working Group invites implementations of the following three Candidate Recommendation Snapshots: EPUB 3.4: EPUB® 3 defines a distribution and interchange format for digital publications and documents. The EPUB format provides a means of representing, packaging, and encoding structured…
DAISY Annual Report 2025
Following approval at the AGM in June, the Annual Report of DAISY Consortium activities conducted in 2025 has now been published. With messages from our President and Treasurer, brief summaries of tool development, project activity, and training, along with contributions…
Forbes 2026 Accessibility 200
Each year Forbes compiles their Accessibility 200 list, highlighting the biggest innovators and impact-makers working in accessibility, celebrating their work and raising awareness of the accessibility sector. As with previous years we are delighted to see several DAISY Members and…
Ace by DAISY Version 1.4.5 Maintenance Release
The DAISY development team have released version 1.4.5 of Ace by DAISY, the accessibility checker for EPUB. This is a maintenance release of the command line tool and the app, updating both to be more stable and in line with the…
Congratulations to ABC Excellence Awards Winners 2026
Many congratulations to the winners of the Accessible Books Consortium International Excellence Awards for Accessible Publishing, announced yesterday during the gala dinner at The Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2026. The awards are divided into 2 categories with an impressive set of finalists for…
Pipeline Updates April 2026
The latest version of DAISY Pipeline, our cross-platform conversion tool, are now available to download. The new App version 1.11.0 provides a series of improvements, including bug fixes and accessibility enhancements. It also uses the latest Pipeline Engine. The main…
Shortlist Announced for ABC International Excellence Awards 2026
The shortlist for the 2026 ABC International Excellence Awards in Accessible Publishing has been announced in advance of the awards ceremony to be held at Bologna Children’s Book Fair on April 13, 2026. There are two categories of awards, publishers and initiatives,…
M-Enabling Summit 2026 Call for Speakers
This year’s edition of the M-Enabling Summit will be held from the 5th to the7th of October in Arlington, Virginia. The call for speakers is now live and will remain open until the 30th of March. Organizers are inviting “proposals…
Remembering Noel Duffy
We are sorry to share the passing of Noel Duffy. As the driving force behind Dolphin Computer Access, Noel was instrumental in the development of accessible reading and publishing solutions used by specialist libraries and consumers around the world. Noel…
Accessibility Metadata Display Guide 2.1 is Released
The Accessibility Task Force of the W3C Publishing Community Group has announced the release of the Accessibility Metadata Display Guide for Digital Publications 2.1. This guide helps implementers—such as bookstores, retailers, distributors, and libraries—present machine-readable accessibility metadata in clear, user-friendly ways,…