As the Consortium plans for the future, we see that there is much work to be done, but the result of the DAISY community's efforts and cooperation will be to expand current DAISY productions so that each document can offer those with print disabilities an extremely flexible multimedia reading experience. Many of these activities are slated for our focus in 2005 ; while others will be completed in the next few years. Projects include:
- Advancing ZedVal to include all six types of books;
- obtaining and validating XML files of an entire book with a complex lay-out;
- Making available a sample test suite of DAISY/NISO Standard conforming DTB generated from production tools;
- compiling a list of conversion vendors who produce XML;
- compiling a list of software tools to use in XML production;
- developing a training course for XML production;
- Offering native support in recording tools; and
- Identifying and helping to promote support for DAISY/NISO Standard in hardware and software playback.