News & Events

Here you will find all the latest news as well as upcoming and previous events.

Inclusive Publishing Partner, RedShelf, Wins EdTech Award

Inclusive Publishing Partner, RedShelf, has been honored with the 2023 Global EdTech Award for Best Established EdTech Company! Award presenter Laura Knight remarked on RedShelf’s beginnings […]

GCA Celebrates 5 Years Since Launch

Our congratulations to everyone who has worked on the Benetech Global Certified Accessible initiative since its launch 5 years ago. The DAISY Consortium are […]

Nominations Open – International Excellence Award for Accessible Publishing 2023

Nominations are now open for the WIPO Accessible Books Consortium International Excellence Award 2023. As in previous years, there are two categories for the […]

Avneesh Singh Re-Elected to W3C Advisory Board

Many congratulations to Avneesh Singh, Chief Operating Officer at The DAISY Consortium, who has been re-elected to the W3C Advisory Board, as reported in W3C’s announcement. Avneesh’s submission […]

EPUB 3.3 Becomes a W3C Recommendation

The W3C have issued a press release to announce the publication of EPUB 3.3 as a W3C Recommendation. This is a significant development and […]

Ace Feedback Wanted

If you use Ace by DAISY to check the accessibility of your EPUB files we would love to hear from you. Our survey, which […]

Hederis to Receive BISG’s Innovator Award

The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) has announced that this year’s recipient of their Innovator Award will be Hederis, the cloud based book production […]

Inclusive Design 24 #id24: Call For Papers

Inclusive Design 24 (#id24) is a free 24-hour online event for the global community. It celebrates inclusive design and shares knowledge and ideas from analogue […]

A Practical Guide for Using EPUB in K-12 Teaching and Learning

The DAISY Consortium, in collaboration with Benetech and CAST, are pleased to announce the development of a new set of guidance to provide practical […]

EPUBCheck Version 5.0.0 Available for Preview

W3C has announced that the latest preview release of the next major version of EPUBCheck, v5.0.0 is now available. “For the first time, this version fully implements the […]