1. Els ten Krooden The DAISY Standard & e-Books for Blind & Print-disabled Readers

2. What is DAISY? Digital Accessible Information System (Digital Audio-based Information System)

3. What is the DAISY Consortium?

4. Vision “that all published information, at time of release to the general population, be available in an accessible, highly functional, feature rich format and at no greater cost, to persons with print disabilities”

5. Aim “that ALL may read” to provide information access to ALL

6. e-Books Talking Books DTBs or Digital Talking Books DAISY Book

7. The DAISY Book Synchronised file XML tagged file, resulting in … *hierarchical navigation *reading choices *different audio reading methods

8. The DAISY Standard DAISY 3 standard ANSI / NISO Z39.86 SMIL

9. Playback Tools Intelligent Reading Systems DAISY Players

10. The Way Forward… Universal accessibility to information for all