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Enabling Technologies Framework

The Enabling Technologies Framework is a three year project funded by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and endorsed by the Stakeholders Platform of WIPO which started in June 2010. This is a joint project involving both EDItEUR and the DAISY Consortium.

Our goal is to evolve mainstream publishing processes so that they are capable of delivering digital publications that are fully accessible to people with reading disabilities. If engineered properly, publishing processes should be able to yield digital products that can be used effectively by every member of society. The fundamental usability of digital publications should equally meet the needs of both mainstream users and persons with disabilities; our target is to allow the same product to be used by everybody.

The focus of work has been to develop best practice guidelines for publishers to follow in their production process and where appropriate to integrate existing standards (including ONIX, ePub and DAISY) into mainstream publishing in ways that enhance these best practices. The outputs have been designed to be used by publishers in all parts of the world.

At the end of the first year of the project EDItEUR launched the guidelines document Accessible Publishing, Best Practice Guidelines for Publishers and these are available in Word, HTML and PDF. Additionally you can view the guidelines in Word in either French, Spanish and Italian. The guidelines are also available in German in pdf format and you can view the guidelines in a variety of formats in Japanese by downloading a zip file.

For further information on the project please contact Sarah Hilderley at sarah@editeur.org. The project also has a Twitter account which can be viewed by searching our username @accessiblebooks.

Translation Guidelines for Accessible Publishing are available for download in Word. To view this document, please click here.

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