IMS Learning Impact Conference 2021
October 4th to 7th, 2021
The annual IMLS Learning Impact conference brings together leaders across K-12, higher education, corporate learning, and edtech who are inspiring and achieving the new […]
A DAISY Consortium InitiativeNews & Events
Here you will find all the latest news as well as upcoming and previous events.
EPUB Accessibility: EU Accessibility Act Mapping
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The European Accessibility Act (EAA) is an EU directive that establishes accessibility targets to be met by many different types of products and services in order […]
Inclusive Publishing Partner RedShelf Wins 2021 Publishing Software of the Year
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Many congratulations to Inclusive Publishing Partner, RedShelf, who have been awarded the 2021 Publishing Software of the Year Award in the EdTech Breakthrough Awards […]
Accessibility is Good For Business: at the ALPSP Conference
September 15th to 17th, 2021
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The Association Of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP)‘s Annual Conference on September 16 includes this session on accessibility featuring Simon Holt (Elsevier), Alan Maloney (SAGE Publishing), Agata Mrva-Montoya (Sydney […]
Free DAISY Webinar: Accessibility Action Group Annual Seminar
July 21st, 2021
/in Upcoming events /by Sarah HilderleyThe Essentials for Accessible Publishing in 2021 This year the annual AAG seminar, which usually takes place at The London Book Fair, will be […]
Avneesh Singh Re-Elected to W3C Advisory Board
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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. The […]
W3C Releases First Public Working Draft for Specification for Spoken Presentation in HTML
/in News /by Sarah HilderleyAnnouncement from the W3C: “The Accessible Platform Architectures (APA) Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of Specification for Spoken Presentation in HTML from the Pronunciation Task […]
How to Grow Your Accessibility Maturity-for HE and FE Professionals
May 26th, 2021
/in Upcoming events /by Sarah HilderleyAbilityNet is delivering this 2 hour course on how to take a strategic and joined-up approach to improve outcomes, reduce culture and change the […]
Accessibility Metadata-A Digital Textbook Superhero! RedShelf Webinar for GAAD
May 20th, 2021
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Join Inclusive Publishing Partner, RedShelf, on May 20th as they recognize Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) by unmasking the powers of accessibility metadata. Learn […]
BISG Accessibility Metadata Workshop
June 15th, 2021
/in Upcoming events /by Sarah HilderleyIn this 90 minute workshop, BISG’s workflow committee will lead a discussion of best practice that make books accessible for print-disabled audiences. Those attending […]