News & Events

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

Digita11y Accessible for GAAD 2021

May 20th, 2021

Join the team from Digita11y Accessible for their free half-day virtual event featuring accessibility industry speakers to help raise visibility for Accessibility awareness in […]

Inclusive Design 24 2021 #id24

September 16th, 2021

Inclusive Design 24 is a free 24-hour online community event on accessibility. It celebrates efforts worldwide to ensure people with disabilities have full and […]

Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2021

May 20th, 2021

GAAD takes place on May 20 this year and we’d like to encourage all our readers to take part so that we can build awareness […]

Free DAISY Webinar: Exploring Reading App Accessibility

April 21st, 2021

There are many different apps for reading digital publications. How do you know which offer the accessibility features you need, and which to avoid? […]

New Releases: Ace By DAISY

The DAISY Consortium are pleased to announce new releases for both versions of the Ace By DAISY EPUB accessibility checking tool: the Command Line […]

EPUBCheck: W3C Announces Release of Version 4.2.5 and New Website

W3C are pleased to announce the latest production-ready release of EPUBCheck, version 4.2.5, providing support for checking conformance to the EPUB 3.2 family of […]

WIPO Accessible Books Consortium International Excellence Awards 2021: Call for Nominations

Nominations are now open for the Accessible Book Consortium’s (ABC) International Excellence Award for Accessible Publishing, which recognizes a publisher and a project initiative […]

Accessibility in Publishing

May 3rd, 2021

This presentation is to be given at the Council of Science Editors (CSE) Annual Meeting which is open to members and non-members. DAISY Chief […]

Webinar: Exploring the Accessible Mobile Reading Revolution

March 24th, 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic has changed the way many of us work, learn, and engage in leisure activities. People have chosen, and in some cases […]

The Future of Inclusive Publishing in Australia

March 18th, 2021

Join experts Dr Agata Mrva-Montoya and Mr Greg Alchin at this free online event on 18 March to discuss the latest on inclusive publishing […]