General, Overarching Benefits
- A shared strategic mission, vision, and plan;
- Established communications tools, such as a centralized Web site, newsletter, and email
lists;
- Collective knowledge and experience regarding the implementation of the standard i.e. a brain trust;
- Access to the support and expertise of world-class staff;
- Opportunities to network online and face-to-face;
- Opportunity to contribute to a collective effort to develop a worldwide
market for a standardized file type to benefit populations which
want/need it and have significant purchasing power -- markets to be influenced may include (but are by no means limited to): braille producers, print and audio publishers, the education sector (at all levels), legislators, print transcribers, preservationists;
- Opportunity to provide input to and receive information from international
organizations, (such as the World Wide Web Consortium or the Consumer Electronics industry) via Consortium membership.