Congratulations to the winners of the Accessible Books Consortium International Excellence Awards who were announced yesterday. The worthy winners are Macmillan Learning in the publisher category and Fondazione LIA for the initiative category. Both winners are applauded for their achievements…
New DAISY Webinars
We are happy to announce that we’re scheduling several webinars on accessible publishing and reading. This is in response to multiple challenges faced by conferences around the world due to Coronavirus, as well as feedback from the wider DAISY community…
ABC International Excellence Awards 2020 Shortlist Announced
The shortlist for the 2020 ABC International Excellence Awards for Accessible Publishing have been announced and the winners will be presented at an awards ceremony on March 10, 2020 at the London Book Fair. There are two awards presented in…
Call for Abstracts – Tactile Reading 2021
The call for abstracts is now open for the second Tactile Reading Conference, which will be held in Oslo, Norway 29-30 April 2021. The conference will bring together: Practitioners, developers and innovators in the field of tactile reading Academics in…
Ace App version 1.0.1 released
We are delighted to announce the first full release of the Ace by DAISY App. Many publishing professionals are already familiar with the Ace command line tool for accessibility checking within EPUB workflows and this new desktop version builds on…
Obi 4.5 Release Candidate
DAISY Consortium is pleased to announce the test release of Obi, the popular open source navigable audio book creation tool. Obi produces books conforming to the accessible EPUB 3, DAISY 3 and DAISY 2.02 specifications. Version 4.5 RC is the…
Digital Book World Awards 2019
The DAISY Consortium were delighted to be part of the Digital Book World 2019 Awards, with the DAISY Award for Accessibility in Publishing. It’s been great to see accessibility put under the spotlight at such a high-profile event, and our thanks…
DAISY Award for Accessibility in Publishing
In Partnership with Digital Book World the DAISY Consortium is celebrating the work of organizations in mainstream publishing who have made significant accessibility developments over the last year. After reviewing a truly impressive range of nominations, the difficult decision was…
New Ace by DAISY App Launched
Following feedback from our users who found the Ace by DAISY command line tool useful but in some instances challenging to use, we are delighted to bring you the new Ace by DAISY App. The Ace by DAISY App is a…
Avneesh Singh Elected to W3C Advisory Board
Many congratulations to Avneesh Singh, Chief Operating Officer at the DAISY Consortium, who has been elected to the W3C Advisory Board alongside other esteemed candidates as reported in the W3C’s announcement. The W3C Advisory Board “provides ongoing guidance on issues of strategy,…