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DAISY Consortium Receives World Telecommunication and Information Society Award, For release, Thursday, May 15, 2008

Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 -0600

Hiroshi Kawamura, President of the DAISY Consortium, was honoured to accept the World Telecommunication and Information Society Award on behalf of the DAISY Consortium today in Cairo Egypt.

Microsoft "Save As DAISY XML" Translator, For release, Wednesday, May 7, 2008, 12:01 PDT

Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 -0600

The first official release of Microsoft's "Save As DAISY XML" translator for Microsoft Office Word was announced today. This is an open source collaborative project.

DAISY Pipeline: New Version, New Features, For release, Wednesday, May 7, 2008, 12:01 PDT

Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 -0600

The DAISY Consortium announces a new release of the DAISY Pipeline, a free, downloadable transformation suite that transforms documents into accessible multimedia formats.

Mellon Technology Collaboration Award Honors TPB's On-going Contributions to the DAISY Consortium

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0700

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MELLON AWARD HONORS INTERNATIONAL EFFORTS TO IMPROVE READING TECHNOLOGY FOR PEOPLE WITH PRINT DISABILITIES

Award-winner Swedish Library of Talking Books and Braille shares the spotlight with the DAISY Consortium supporting the fundamental human right for access to printed materials.

Microsoft - DAISY Consortium Collaboration, For release, Tuesday November 13, 2007 at 09:01 CET

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0700

In a new collaborative initiative, Microsoft and the DAISY Consortium will work together to develop an Open XML to DAISY XML Converter: "Save As DAISY XML". DTBook, the DAISY XML file which will be generated from the free downloadable plug-in for Microsoft Word, is the foundation of the DAISY/NISO Standard for reading and publishing navigable, multimedia content.

NISO Press Release Announces: "Save as DAISY" Integrates Digital Talking Book Standard

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0600

NISO, the National Information Standards Organization, a non-profit association accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), identifies, develops, maintains, and publishes technical standards to manage information in today's changing and ever-more digital environment.

NISO recognizes that standards must reflect global needs and is designated by ANSI to represent U.S. interests as the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) to the International Organization for Standardization's (ISO) Technical Committee 46 on Information and Documentation.

Read the NISO Press Release announcing this DAISY Consortium/Microsoft collaboration: "NISO Standard at the Heart of Microsoft Translator for Open XML to DAISY XML".

Press Release: Visually Impaired Persons and Publishers Join IPA

Mon, 09 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0600

Geneva, 2 July 2007 - For Immediate Release

Visually Impaired Persons and Publishers Join IPA in Geneva for Dialogue on International Access

The International Publishers Association invited VIP (Visually Impaired Persons) experts and publishing industry stakeholders to discuss the issues of access of visually impaired persons across borders to works in accessible formats.

IPA invited experts to informal talks in Geneva. The invitees came from the World Blind Union, the DAISY Consortium, and IFLA/Libraries for the Blind Section to join publishing industry specialists from the Federation of European Publishers (FEP), the International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations (IFRRO), the Publishers Licensing Society (PLS) and the Dorina Nowill Foundation (Brazil). All were invited in their personal capacity, not as spokespersons of their respective organisations.

DAISY Consortium Press Release: Mathematics Now Added to the DAISY Standard

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0600

For Immediate Release

Mathematics Now Added to the DAISY Standard

The DAISY Consortium approves MathML - the first modular extension to DAISY

ZURICH, Switzerland - March 22, 2007 - The DAISY Consortium announced today the formal adoption of the specification for the DAISY/NISO Standard Modular Extension for Mathematics. The publication of the Mathematics Modular Extension is crucial to integrating accessible mathematics into DAISY and NIMAS-compliant books. The path to accessible mathematics is now clear.