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Enabling Technologies Framework

The Enabling Technologies Framework is a three year project funded by 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 is 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 will be designed to be used by publishers in all parts of the world.

A key stage of the project involves introducing the accessibility and the publishing communities to each other to facilitate dialogue and enable the interchange of ideas. If you are interested in participating in this forum please contact Sarah Hilderley for further information. The first meeting will be held on the 6th of October at the Frankfurt Bookfair.

An international publishing survey is being carried out to collect information on working practices and digital workflows in all sectors of the publishing industry. It is open to anyone working in publishing worldwide - please follow this link to participate in the survey.