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…
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…
Thorium Reader 1.6 Supports DAISY 3 Publications
EDRLab have announced the release of Thorium 1.6, the latest version of the highly accessible free EPUB reader which can be installed for free on Windows, MacOS and Linux. With this new version Thorium offers support for DAISY 3 publications…
George Kerscher Awarded NISO Fellow for Lifetime Achievement in Information Access
Congratulations to George Kerscher, DAISY Consortium Chief Innovations Officer, for being awarded NISO Fellow for Lifetime Achievement in Information Access. George was presented with the award at NISO Plus 2021 which was attended virtually. In his acceptance speech, George said:…
2020 DAISY Award for Accessibility in Publishing
After reviewing many incredible activities taking place around the world which are working to advance the accessibility of publications, we are pleased to announce the recipient of the 2020 DAISY Consortium Award for Accessibility in Publishing is The Department of…
WordToEPUB Wins ALPSP Award
The DAISY Consortium is proud to have been named a winner of the ALPSP Awards for Innovation in Publishing 2020 for our work on WordToEPUB. This ground-breaking new tool offers a free, simple and straightforward method of converting structured Word…
DAISY Publishes White Paper on the Benefits of EPUB 3
The DAISY Consortium has published a white paper encouraging the use of Born Accessible EPUB 3 files for corporate, government and university publications and documents. This important piece of work recognizes the work of the publishing industry who have embraced EPUB 3 as their…