Today’s readership needs to be able to consume technology in a variety of different ways and publishing’s metamorphosis from a print-dominated into a mixed and inexorably into a digitally-led industry presents an unprecedented opportunity for publishers to extend their products to the widest possible audience. The publishing landscape is becoming much more user-oriented ensuring your published content is accessible by all your potential readers is more and more important. These are people with visual impairments, with dyslexia, or with motor disabilities which can seriously affect their ability to read. Problems with supplying Accessible materialsġ0% of people in the developed world and 15% in the developing world have some degree of print impairment.

Supplying files to Intermediary Organisations.When to include Structure in your workflow.Guidelines for Internal Accessibility Lead File formats – which ones are accessible?.The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers.The International Publishers Association.It is updated regularly and if you have any comments, suggestions or information that should be included please contact Sarah Hilderley at guidelines have been endorsed by: I guess what I’m saying is, let book providers use whatever they like but ensure that the content can be delivered accessibly and that there are software solutions to deliver that content accessibly as well.This document was originally published in April 2011, as part of The Enabling Technologies Framework project funded by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). So, for reading disabled people, you want something that can access both formats and you want something with an accessible interface that everyone can use to get at the printed material. A lot of the eBook readers I’ve found in Linux in general and on linux-based devices in particular like Android phones focus on ePub with Daisy readers being somewhat rare for anything other than Windows. That weighs pretty heavily with marketing types.

Epub looks more like printed text than daisy probably does. I think there are asthetic concerns at play here. Epub seems to be more popular for mainstream organizations whereas Daisy is quite niche-specific. On my firefox installation, I have installed both the DDreader (daisy books) and the epub reader. I think Daisy outstrips epub in audio only books but epub is just as nice if not nicer for printed text which one then reads with a screen reader. I can’t say I’d be pleased to see one gain ascendancy over the other. I have used both epub and daisy and find them quite suitable.

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