George Kerscher

George Kerscher

Daisy Consortium

George Kerscher Ph.D.

“in the Information Age, access to information is a fundamental human right” -UN 2001

He started innovations information technology by creating the first eBooks in 1987, and coined the term “print disabled. “He believes that properly designed information systems that use structured markup, such as XML, can make all information accessible to all people, and is pushing the evolving technologies in that direction.

Affiliations: Secretary General, DAISY Consortium, Co-chair, Steering Council of WAI, Senior Officer, RFB&D, Board of International Digital Publishing Forum, and serves on NIMAS.

Sessions

1:40pm - 2:25pm Monday, 02/11/2008
Making Digital Publishing Accessible to Persons Who are Blind and Print Disabled
Digital Strategy, General, Open Access Shubert/Uris
George Kerscher (Daisy Consortium), Arnie Zucker (NDS Technologies Ltd.), Ivan Lagacé (HumanWare), Garth Conboy (eBook Technologies, Inc.)
Technology has made it possible for publishers to profitably expand to include persons who are blind and print disabled. The growing legal demands to serve this population makes this a timely issue. Read more.
DAISY: The Best Way to Read, the Best Way to Publish
George Kerscher (Daisy Consortium)
DAISY multimedia standards provide publishers with the technologies that allow full rich synchronized multimedia in a cross-platform environment.
Open Source Publishing Tools from the DAISY Consortium
George Kerscher (Daisy Consortium)
A suite of open source tools licensed under LGPL that can assist publishers to create and transform multimedia products will be presented.
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  • RSuite
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