DAISY (Digital Accessible Information System) is an open international standard for accessible multimedia. The DAISY Consortium is set up in Switzerland by leading not-for-profit organizations from around the world serving blind and dyslexic people in order to develop and maintain the standard.
Accessible multimedia is ideal for people with disabilities as well as for the general public to share information and knowledge world wide. DAISY helps bridge the digital divide in developing regions of the world and to ensure access to information for the information disadvantaged, such as people with print disabilities, language minorities in a community, indigenous populations who do not have their own script, and those who are illiterate.
DAISY for All (DFA in short) will deploy DAISY technology and address goals and objectives which include capacity building in developing countries and to serve as a catalyst to generate broader alliances supporting the global sharing of human knowledge in the information society. DAISY for All is funded by the Nippon Foundation as a five year project.
