The DAISY Consortium is a global partnership of organizations committed to creating the best way to read and publish, for everyone.

1. Creating the Best Way to Read and Publish
DAISY Consortium
global partnership of organizations
More than 100 members in 45 countries

2. Creating the Best Way to Read and Publish
Goal
The DAISY Consortium and its member organizations
continue to innovate in order to improve the reading
experience for people who struggle to read or can not
read printed materials
Collaboration is key

3. Creating the Best Way to Read and Publish
Projects & Partnerships
• IDPF
• WIPO
• WBU
• ABC
• W3C

4. Creating the Best Way to Read and Publish
Digital Accessible Information SYstem
• accessible enriched reading experience
• text and audio synchronization, navigation
• audio recordings made by narrators
• or audio generated as synthetic speech
• can support Braille output
• provides adjustable character display
• meets both simple and advanced reading needs

5. Creating the Best Way to Read and Publish
DAISY Standard
allows the producing agency full flexibility regarding
the mix of text and audio ranging from audio-only, to
full text and audio, to text-only

6. Creating the Best Way to Read and Publish
DAISY and the Digital Divide
DAISY helps bridge the digital divide in developing regions
of the world to ensure access to information for the
disadvantaged population such as people who can’t
access printed materials and those who are illiterate.
Open Source tools (Obi, Tobi, DAISY Pipeline, AMIS)

7. Creating the Best Way to Read and Publish
Potential
• DAISY is an international open standard that
enables content creators to use technology to its
greatest advantage
• DAISY functionality is integrated into the
mainstream EPUB 3 standard

8. Creating the Best Way to Read and Publish
Resources
• Open Source DAISY tools and DAISY projects
[http://www.daisy.org/daisy-projects]
• Case Studies, Presentations, Guidelines
[http://www.daisy.org/education]
• DAISY, EPUB 3 and Publishers
[http://www.daisy.org/daisy-epub-3-developments]
• DAISY Media Center
[http://www.daisy.org/media-center]