- [Richard] Thank you, Martin. So we're now starting our marathon with part A, all about DAISY projects. And in this segment, we'll have highlights about DAISY projects, which is introduced by Avneesh Singh. And we'll also feature a case study on the use of the DAISY pipeline. Before then seeing some reports of DAISY projects around reading experiences in your browser, responding to COVID with DAISY online training, and preparing for the revolution in born accessible publishing in Europe. And we finished this segment with an update on improving access to music braille. So it's my big pleasure to ask Avneesh Singh to give us an update on DAISY project highlights. - [Avneesh] Hello, everyone. I'm Avneesh Singh. I am Chief of strategy and operations DAISY Consortium. And I will be presenting the highlights of the projects driven by DAISY consortium. Let's start with our core activity. The standards DAISY team, along with our members continue to continue to drive accessibility in the mainstream publishing standards. The big achievement of the series that EPUB accessibility is approaching candidate recommendation, which means that it is feature complete. Another achievement is that we released the user experience guide on displaying accessibility, metadata. We all know that accessibility metadata is important for discovery of the publications, which are accessible, but most of this metadata is machine-readable. So we have developed a document for guiding the retailers and the distributors, how to interpret the accessibility metadata and how to display it to your users in the user-friendly way. Along with it, we have also harmonised accessibility, metadata for phonics and schema.org so that you get the same accessibility information, no matter which accessibility metadata format is being used. For more details on these topics, please watch our presentation in the accessible publishing session today at 14 UTC. Apart from this, we continue to contribute to web content, accessibility guidelines, version 3.0, for incorporating the accessibility requirements of publishing in WCAG itself. We hope that five to seven years from now, we will, we may not need deep of accessibility and the requirements of publishing will be in the WCAG itself. So this was highlights of for the standards, but for implementation of standards, you need tools. So let's talk about tools. Let's start with the automated production tool. DAISY pipeline. This tool is the backbone of the production workflows of many of our members. The team continuously provides the updated versions. The latest one is version 1.14.4. A lot of progress have been made since the last board meeting. The EPUB 3 to DAISY 2.02 script has been improved. Thanks to MTM for the feedback. The new script has been added for DAISY 2.02 to DAISY 3. And the team has also added the support for CereProc text-to-speech engine. And there are several fixes, bug fixes for the braille production and the DAISY production workflows. Now, let's talk about the sub project of DAISY pipeline. It is the MS Word plugin, for exporting Word into DAISY and EPUB 3 with the facility of synthetic voice. This is the Save As DAISY plugin. Their team provided a test to this earlier this year for making it work with the latest version of Microsoft Office. And now having the factoring is being done to upgrade the old code and make it future proof. The plan is to release the DAISY export with the refactor code base towards the end of this year. It will also have a test of your list of EPUB export. The great thing with this tool is that it is based on DAISY pipeline, which is all of us kept up to date with the latest accessible publishing specifications. So it's easy to update the plugin also. In parallel, the existing Word to EPUB tool has also made for this version. 1.0.7. This tool is on a totally different core base. The new release has many attractive features like support for movie annotations, Japanese localization, and more. Let's talk about Obi, Obi is the audio books production tool that can produce DAISY, EPUB 3 and W3C audiobooks in these specifications. We continue to address the requirements of the members. Version 4.7 alpha was released in July this year. And the beta test release is on its way. We have already talked about the WordToEPUB tool. Tobi, tobi is the production tool for DAISY, for tests, with audio and book three media over this with human voice. It is still in the maintainance mode. Now let's talk about the transition to EPUB 3 project. It has two sub projects. One is the production processes group. The group has started the challenging work on encouraging the implementation of DPUB ARIA roles. A little background, DAISY has very rich semantics. We tried to inject these rich semantics in EPUB 3 by using the DPUB ARIA roles. But it's more than seven years, these are not implemented. So this is one of the reasons why EPUB 3 lags behind DAISY when it comes to rich semantics. So we started testing DPUB ARIA roles with combinations of browsers, reading systems, assistive technologies on different operating systems and started providing feedback to the respective developers. Good news is that Google Chrome with talk back provides good support. And the bad news is that other browser reading systems and assistive technologies are at nearly zero. But we are engaging with them. So we are optimistic to see some improvements in the near future. The other subgroup is the reading system accessibility testing group, which continues to test different combinations of reading systems, screen readers, on different operating systems, and continues to provide feedback to the developers. Please watch their presentation on the reading system accessibility testing in the accessible publishing session today at 14 UTC. Accessibility baseline project. This project is, is, has been instrumental in establishing the inclusive publishing system across the world. It was originally funded by Google impact after which the funding reduced, but we still keep on driving the essential pieces of this project. For example, the work on accessibility checking tools Ace and SMART score and his app. Ace core and Ace app, the new releases for these tools were released in August. And SMART is continuously updated based on the feedback provided by DAISY members and DAISY partners. And now we are preparing for the tools for upcoming EPUB accessibility 1.1. Inclusive publishing website is refreshed regularly with the new material and it continues to be the information hub for accessible publishing and reading. Apart from this, there are a couple of projects on which DAISY Consortium is contributing though. These are not driven by us. One is the EPUB Check, the EPUB validation tool. Another one is Thorium Reading system, which obviously renders EPUB 3 but it also plays DAISY full text audio and DAISY audio. I will stop my presentation here because there are a very exciting presentations coming for more highlights on the projects. We will start with a case study for using pipeline by Jostein Jacobsen from NLB. Then we will go through the progress made in the strategic initiatives approved by the board last year. And then we will see another presentation from DAISY developing countries team for transforming the DAISY trainings in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. So now let's welcome, Jostein.