DAISY is being adopted throughout the world.
Background
- User requirements for the richest reading and information access experience possible drives the design;
- DAISY builds on existing accepted non-proprietary, royalty free standards ;
- The standards address all character sets and all languages;
- In 1999 the DAISY 2.0 standard was released based on HTML, SMIL, and MP3;
- While DAISY is famous for navigation of audio content, the real strength is that it is a comprehensive multimedia information system;
- Today DAISY is the maintenance agency for the DAISY/NISO standard passed in 2005.