A new update to Ace by DAISY, the Accessibility Checker for EPUB, has been released, updating both the Ace App and the command line version of the tool. The Ace App moves to version 1.1.4 and the command line application…
Thorium 1.8.0 New Improvements For Accessibility
Thorium Reader is the free desktop EPUB reader published by EDRLab. Version 1.8.0, recently launched, includes new features, improvements and bug fixes, notably the following accessibility features: Full DAISY format 2.02 support in addition to the previously supported DAISY 3. “where…
Congratulations to the 2021 ABC Excellence Awards Winners
Many congratulations to the winners of the Accessible Books Consortium International Excellence Awards for Accessible Publishing, announced today at The Frankfurt Book Fair event Accessibility Now. The awards are divided into 2 categories with an impressive set of finalists for each. Publisher Award…
Common Position on the Importance of Accessible Reading
On September 8th 2021, the International Literacy Day, six DAISY Member organizations collaborated to publish a common position on the importance of accessible reading. This work has been driven at least in part to aid the publishing industry in preparations…
Finalists Announced for ABC International Excellence Awards 2021
The finalists for the 2021 ABC International Excellence Awards have been announced and we’d like to pass on our congratulations to all candidates who have been shortlisted in each category. The finalists for the Initiative Category are: Dorwina Nowill Foundation…
EPUB Accessibility: EU Accessibility Act Mapping
The European Accessibility Act (EAA) is an EU directive that establishes accessibility targets to be met by many different types of products and services in order to strengthen the rights of people with disabilities. It is relevant for the publishing industry as…
DAISY General Meeting 2021 – recording
The DAISY Consortium Annual General Meeting was held via Zoom webinar on May 26 2021. In addition to conducting the formal business required, the AGM also included a showcase of collaborative projects highlighting just a few ways that DAISY Members…
Avneesh Singh Re-Elected to W3C Advisory Board
Many congratulations to Avneesh Singh, Chief Operating Officer at The DAISY Consortium, who has been re-elected to the W3C Advisory Board, as reported in W3C’s announcement. The W3C Advisory Board “provides ongoing guidance on issues of strategy, management, legal matters, process, and conflict resolution”…
New Releases: Ace By DAISY
The DAISY Consortium are pleased to announce new releases for both versions of the Ace By DAISY EPUB accessibility checking tool: the Command Line Interface (CLI) and the Graphical User Interface (Ace App) versions 1.2. These releases contains significant internal…
EPUBCheck: W3C Announces Release of Version 4.2.5 and New Website
W3C are pleased to announce the latest production-ready release of EPUBCheck, version 4.2.5, providing support for checking conformance to the EPUB 3.2 family of specifications. This is a maintenance release. Full details and release notes are available at [https://github.com/w3c/epubcheck/releases/tag/v4.2.5. They…