Message from the President

Like previous years for the DAISY Consortium 2022 was an eventful year. A year with a lot of exciting developments, but unfortunately with sad news as well.

On the 10th of December distinguished member of the board Scott Labarre passed away. Scott represented the National Federation of the Blind on the board of Directors of the DAISY Consortium since 2018. Besides his excellent contribution to the work of the board, Scott played an important role in the establishment of the Marrakesh Treaty. We owe an enormous debt of gratitude to Scott for his significant contribution to fulfilling DAISY’s mission to make information accessible to people with disabilities, wherever they live in the world.

During 2022 Brad Turner, John Brown and Tove Dannestam left the DAISY board. We’re thankful for their highly valued contribution to the work of the board. We’re happy that we could welcome their successors Michael Johnson (Benetech), Alice O’Reilly (NLS) and Daniel Frelén (MTM). A highlight in 2023 was the turning into a Full Membership by the American Printing House for the Blind (APH), and we welcome Nicole Gaines to the board.

As a new Full Member APH took the initiative for a development of a new Braille file format that would address the issues with existing solutions and will work with new and existing braille displays. Based on this initiative DAISY started a new special project in which besides APH several members of the DAISY Consortium are participating.

Another promising development is the Low-Cost Assistive Technology project supported by a philanthropic grant under the Microsoft AI for Accessibility programme. In this project we will be developing a straightforward application to convert books so they can be used by devices typically in the hands of persons with disabilities in low resourced parts of the world. This includes basic phones, affordable braille displays, and even solar-powered audio players.

One of the Strategic goals of the DAISY Consortium is the increased availability of born accessible and access-enhanced publications. In this year we continued development of accessibility testing tools, the knowledge base, promoting born accessible publications, sharing of knowledge. It’s exciting to see that around the world there is a growing number of initiatives to promote and support inclusive publishing. Often members of the DAISY Consortium play a leading role in these initiatives.

As you might expect from the DAISY Consortium and reflected in this Annual Report also in 2022 we made significant progress in the fields of standards, tools, member support, knowledge sharing and training.

All these achievements couldn’t be reached without the excellent work of the management and staff of the DAISY Consortium. I’m confident that this great team will continue this success in 2023.

Maarten Verboom
President of the DAISY Consortium

Vision, Mission and Key Activities

Vision

People have equal access to information and knowledge regardless of disability; a right confirmed by the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

Mission

To develop global solutions for accessible publishing and reading, in partnership with civil society, publishing and technology industries, standards bodies and governments.

Key Activities

To achieve our mission, vision and goals we will:

Help creators, distributors & service providers of access-enhanced publications be more effective

Help DAISY Consortium member organizations to work together to deliver inclusion

Help authors and mainstream publishers build inclusion into their publishing processes

Help publishing, reading technology and content authoring tool industries to enable a great reading experience for people reading with their eyes, ears or fingers

Influence legal, copyright and standards bodies to make an efficient global marketplace that includes developing countries

Help governments, civil society and disabled peoples’ organizations to achieve their inclusion aims

Help people with disabilities benefit from the improvements

Community

The DAISY Consortium is the hub of a global community of organizations which works together to share expertise and collaborate to bring about the accessibility of published materials. The Member Spotlight section of this report highlights the accomplishments of a few of our members from around the world.

World map approximately three quarters highlighted in blue to illustrate the DAISY Consortium global community.
Caption: World map showing countries where there are DAISY Members marked in dark blue, and other countries where DAISY was active in 2022 marked in light blue.

2022: Year in Review

DAISY Board and General Meetings

Following discussion with our board members and potential hosts, with the ongoing risks of Covid19 associated with travel, our first board meeting of the year was held in May as an accessible virtual event on the Zoom platform. We also hosted a virtual AGM to conduct the formal business required, as well deliver presentations highlighting two topical activities, the Microsoft Low-Cost Assistive Technology Project and the DAISY European Inclusive Publishing Forum.

In November we were delighted that conditions permitted us to hold our first in-person board meeting for a while, with the option of virtual attendance for those unable to travel. Hosted by the LIA Foundation, board members met in Milan, Italy for two full days of meetings.

Caption: Milan Cathedral and the Piazza del Duomo

Welcomes and Recognitions

The DAISY Board and wider community benefit from the contribution of many people, and occasionally that dynamic changes, allowing a constantly fresh approach and always keeping the door open for new perspectives.

In 2022 the DAISY Board said farewell and welcome to the following people:

Thanks to Brad Turner who served the board since 2016, welcome Michael Johnson as the new Benetech representative.

Welcome to Alice O’Reilly at the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled who takes over from John Brown who we thank for their contribution to the board.

Our thanks to Tove Dannestam for representing the Swedish DAISY Consortium on the board since 2019, a warm welcome to Daniel Frelén.

We are grateful for the contribution Scott LaBarre made to the DAISY board since 2018 representing the National Federation of the Blind, he will be greatly missed.

We welcome Nicole Gaines at the American Printing House for the Blind (APH) to the DAISY board after they elevated their membership to become Full Members.

Developments

DAISY leads several open source development initiatives that deliver practical solutions to Members and the wider community.

Obi

Our tool for audiobook production used globally received further enhancements including a simplified production workflow, new sampling rates for higher quality audio and controls for trimming trailing silence, along with other minor improvements and bug fixes.
Obi is used around the world as the primary tool for audio book creation and editing in many specialist organizations around the world who rely on this free tool for their content creation.
https://daisy.org/obi/

Tobi

Our tool for producing human narrated audio books is currently in maintenance mode and did not require updating but remains a popular solution for audio book creation.
https://daisy.org/tobi/

Pipeline

The DAISY Pipeline is our cross-platform framework for document processing and conversion, and the application received several updates including improvements for text to speech, embedded MP3 encoding, braille scripts and conversion optimization.

Through the Microsoft project an easy-to-use App utilizing Pipeline technology is being developed with the goal of delivering a conversion solution that can be run on older technology and without requiring a high level of technical expertise.

The various versions of Pipeline continue to provide the backbone of content creation and conversion for organizations around the world.
https://daisy.org/pipeline/

WordToEPUB Tool

Our very simple yet powerful tool to convert structured Microsoft Word Documents to accessible EPUB continued to grow in features and popularity. Improvements to language support have helped the tool reach a wider audience, and the recent improvements to Math support make WordToEPUB even more practical for education and technical publishing.
https://daisy.org/wordtoepub/

Save As DAISY

Utilizing Pipeline technology, several beta versions of the updated Save As DAISY plugin for Microsoft Word were released for testing and feedback. The simple plugin now supports conversion of Word documents to DAISY format 2.02, 3 and EPUB 3 with Media Overlays.
https://daisy.org/saveasdaisy/

Ace by DAISY

The Accessibility Checking for EPUB which both the specialist and mainstream publishing industry has come to rely upon receives regular updates for maintenance and feature enhancement. Improvements included increased language support, updates to support EPUB Accessibility 1.1 and the new success criteria added to WCAG 2.1.
https://inclusivepublishing.org/ace

Ace SMART

SMART is the Simple Manual Accessibility Reporting Tool for EPUB which helps people to perform the manual tests which cannot be automated. SMART has received a series of updates including support for the EPUB Accessibility Specification 1.1. Access to smart was also changed from previously being restricted to the Inclusive Publishing Partner level of Friend Membership, SMART is now freely available.
https://inclusivepublishing.org/smart

Accessible Publishing Knowledge Base

The EPUB accessibility reference resource from DAISY is used globally and provides essential information and advice directly from Ace accessibility tests. The Knowledge Base is regularly updated to ensure the best practices and advice it offers reflect the latest industry developments.
https://kb.daisy.org/publishing

Reading System Testing

The reading system accessibility testing site epubtest.org continues to capture and make available the latest scores for a range of reading system and assistive technology combinations. Over 80 tests were conducted by our volunteer testers, providing essential feedback to the application developers, and enabling consumers to make informed decisions about suitable reading software.
http://epubtest.org

InclusivePublishing.org

Well respected within the publishing industry, the Inclusive Publishing website is constantly updated with news, events, information and advice on accessibility and publishing. Our regular newsletters deliver highlights and constant reminders of our work, to a global audience of publishers, developers, educators and consumers.
https://inclusivepublishing.org

W3C Publishing

2022 saw continued efforts on accessibility standards related to publishing, with direct contributions to working groups and through leadership. Work was conducted in many areas including DPUB ARIA, MathML 4, EPUB 3.3, EPUB Accessibility 1.1 and WCAG 2.2.
https://www.w3.org/publishing/

Special Projects

EBraille Project

A new project for 2022 started to investigate the capabilities and limitations of current electronic braille file formats. A working group of international experts was formed and worked to identify the requirements for a modern flexible braille file format. Work has begun exploring how mainstream formats can be leveraged to deliver a modern eBraille solution.
https://daisy.org/ebraille/

EPUBCheck

Under contract to W3C, DAISY develop and maintain the EPUBCheck tool used globally in publishing for validating EPUB files against the specification to ensure they are well formed and function as expected on reading systems. Updates to the tool now enables support for testing against the EPUB 3.3 specification.
https://www.w3.org/publishing/epubcheck/

European Inclusive Publishing Forum

As we count down to the European Accessibility Act implementation in June 2025 the European Inclusive Publishing Forum continues to play a key role in facilitating information sharing, developing reference resources and working closely with partner organizations to help foster a common understanding of the Act and highlight differences in implementation between regions.
https://daisy.org/euipf/

Microsoft Low-Cost Assistive Technology Project

This project supported by Microsoft through their AI for Accessibility program enabled strategic developments to be made in 4 key areas:

The creation of a simple to install and highly accessible user interface for DAISY Pipeline, enabling accessible format creation and conversion without the barrier of technical expertise.

Piloting the delivery of accessible education resources on low-cost solar powered audio devices to people in low resource countries. Working with partner organizations, devices were provided to students aged 14-15 for some of whom this was their first time independently accessing a book.

Research on accessible books in browsers to transform EPUB publications with Media Overlays into a series of HTML files for reading directly in a browser on mobile devices. Test scripts have produced promising results.

Extending digital braille access to 2 currently unsupported languages, following research identifying potential languages and assessing their potential reach, the languages Swahili and Chichewa were selected. Working with language and braille experts the Lib Louis braille tables were created, tested and implemented in the latest version of Lib Louis, which will be adopted by tools including the DAISY Pipeline, NVDA, narrator, Duxbury, Sao Mai braille, and many other devices including mainstream mobile phones.

Our thanks to Microsoft for their support throughout this project.
https://daisy.org/mlcat/

Music Braille

The collaborative project to make strategic improvements to music braille conversion tools, file formats, and related resources, continued to make significant progress in 2022.

The MakeBraille converter tool received regular updates by dzb lesen to continue enhancing the application and address feedback from users. The mainstream notation tool, MuseScore, continues in make progress implementing accessibility features, and development of the interactive tool for blind musicians Sao Mai Braille also received updates with users reporting conversions are quick and reliable.
https://daisy.org/music-braille/

Training & Support

https://daisy.org/info-help/guidance-training/

Throughout 2022 training was delivered as a mixture of in-person and online events supported by webinars, digital handouts and online learning systems.

Training was delivered under contract to WIPO through the Accessible Books Consortium online training portal we were contracted to develop and maintain, with direct support provided to Lesotho, Ghana, Philippines, and Kyrgyzstan.

Additional training courses were delivered to VTS World in the US, Charities Aid Foundation, National Library in India, European Disability Forum, in Macedonia under the Erasmus project, and for Librarians in India.

Through an additional project with Africa Publishing Innovation Fund in partnership with the International Publishers Association, webinars and training were delivered in English, French and Arabic reaching publishers in 23 countries and providing instruction and support in the creation of accessible publications.

Caption: participants of a training session in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Webinars

Our DAISY Webinar series on accessible publishing and reading delivered a season of 4 high quality webinars to a global audience, producing the full session recording, transcript, links, slides, and a description as an enduring learning resource.

https://daisy.org/webinars

Online Training

Through a contract to WIPO under the Accessible Books Consortium, maintenance and support for their online training site continued, offering a course on accessible book production in English, French and Spanish, alongside virtual trainer sessions with groups of trainees to a further 12 countries, with ongoing support provided to the first 16 countries.

A new DAISY Learning system was launched offering courses on accessible publishing concepts, accessible Word documents, WordToEPUB, implementing the Marrakesh Treaty, and piloting additional courses.

The DAISY Learning platform was also used to deliver courses for APIF and IPA Africa.

https://learning.daisy.org/

Member Spotlight

Around the world DAISY Members have been actively serving their communities and developing new resources. We are delighted to include a few of their stories from 2022.

Amnet

Amnet ContentSource is committed to ensuring diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) for all and contributing to creating a digitally accessible and inclusive world. We enable organizations to commence, adapt, and implement accessibility standards and enhance their business objectives.

In 2022, Amnet developed several high-accuracy accessibility tools to assist in the cost-effective and efficient delivery of customers’ content:

reading order validation tool,

web navigator, and

accessibility conformance reporting utility.

Amnet conducted webinars as part of our Graymatters webinar series with accessibility evangelists Bill Kasdorf, Laura Brady, Sarah Hilderley, and Charles LaPierre addressing challenges faced by publishers in digital accessibility and advising on solutions to combat them.

Completed phase 1 of our accessibility product suite Digita11y—a website with accessibility checker tools to assist accessibility goals. This is now available, and we are working on enhancing the website.
https://www.amnet.com

Boin IT

Boin IT released the Accessible EPUB QA system which is for checking the accessibility of EPUB and answering questions that arise in production.
The Korean QA system was built using ACE/EPUBCheck error messages, as well as the question-answer dataset that the company has amassed over the past 6 years of producing accessible. It can be found on the National Library for People with Disabilities website.

Translation of text in Image 1: “Real-time Self-Validation AI Helper for Korean. Please ask me if you have any questions or difficulties while producing the accessible EPUB.”

Translation of text in Image 2: When asked about epub:type and ARIA-Role of Accessible EPUB

“Q. How do I resolve the validation error of role="doc-biblioentry"  

A. The role="doc-biblioentry" property has been excluded due to changes to international standards. Please delete it.”

https://boinit.com/

Dedicon, the Netherlands

In 2022 Dedicon, together with the Dutch publishers' association and interest groups of people with a visual impairment, gave various training courses to dozens of Dutch publishers on how to create accessible publications. Meanwhile, five major Dutch publishers have also signed the ABC Charter for Accessible Publishing.

Photo of staff from Gottmer Publishing who have signed the ABC charter
Caption: Gottmer Publishing staff celebrating signing the ABC charter

In September 2022, the online platform Inclusive Publishing In Practice (IPIP) launched offering 4 learning paths, 11 courses, 30 modules and 75 learning units in English, German, French and Dutch, developed by Dedicon, Johannes Kepler Universität and BrailleNet, offering training for free.

As the implementation of the European Accessibility Act approaches, Dedicon have been in regular talks with the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science concerning e-books in Dutch legislation as there is concern about the accessibility of digital learning resources and environments which seem to fall outside the scope of this legislation. Dedicon is in ongoing negotiation with publishers, educational institutions, and the ministry about this issue.

http://www.dedicon.nl

Digital Literacy Trust

This past year, Digital Literacy Trust members collaborated in the 3rd Annual Content Development Challenge (CDC) in Kenya. The aim of the CDC is to train and incentivize African publishers to adopt born-accessible publishing practices. All content is scored using a rubric that includes DAISY ACE. Over the past three years, 32 publishing houses have participated in 19 training sessions, resulting in 402 accessible EPUBs.

Photo of a publisher training event in Kenya
Caption: Publishers being trained at an event in Kenya

In Malawi, DLT member eKitabu translated and adapted Creative Commons licensed titles from fellow member African Storybook to create accessible EPUBs in Malawian Sign Language, Tumbuka, Chichewa, and English. This work was done under Begin With Books from All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development (ACR GCD) Partners (the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), World Vision, and the Australian Government) and Pearson. The EPUBs are available on the Global Digital Library digitallibrary.io and at open.eKitabu.com
http://www.digitalliteracytrust.org

LIA Foundation

Fondazione LIA expanded its activities in Italy and internationally in all areas of intervention: partnerships, training, consultancy activities, accessibility audit of publications, web sites and platforms, social and technological projects, R&D. Special focus was devoted to:

facilitate and speed up the process of creating accessible complex layouts books through traditional workflows starting from InDesign, in collaboration with major academic and textbooks publishers;

define a methodology to create in an efficient and cost-effective way alternative descriptions for complex images;

To promote accessibility and inclusion LIA organized an Accessibility Camp bringing together publishing professionals and experts in digital accessibility and 10 Readings in the dark. within the European project Aldus UP and the Italian project TD-Box. LIA also hosted the DAISY Board Meeting.

In 2022 the LIA catalogue of Italian Born accessible e-books passed 30.000 titles.
https://fondazionelia.org

Microsoft

Microsoft AI for Accessibility has launched an accessibility innovation toolkit; a resource with tips, case studies, and a step-by-step guide for any organization that would like to create a framework for accessibility innovation. Access the toolkit at: https://aka.ms/InnovationToolkit

Readium Foundation

The Readium community has been working on multiple evolutions of the Readium toolkits, including support for accessibility metadata in this open-source software for mobile, desktop and web reading applications. 

Accessibility metadata describe different aspects of the accessibility of an ebook, like its access modes and specific features. They are described in the DAISY Knowledge Base, can be included un EPUB files and are now supported in the internal model of the Readium toolkits. It is important to note that the information present in EPUB files is not meant to be presented as-is to end-users. EDRLab is currently working on the best way to present such information in reading applications, so that users can immediately know if an ebook fits their needs. Applications based on Readium, like Thorium Reader, already display accessibility metadata to their users. 
https://readium.org/

Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), UK

Following the successful launch of the RNIB Talking Book Skill in 2021, RNIB and Sonnar launched an updated version.

Updates include a bookshelf where customers can manage their audio books. The aim is to go cross platform where users will be able to continue reading an audio book from one device to another. The accuracy of searching by genre has been improved with over 50 categories available.

Thanks to the generosity of publishers RNIB is able to add several hundred audio books a month to its physical and digital libraries with some publishers donating their back catalogues to the library.

RNIB Talking Books has over 39,000 titles available on CD/USB, digital download and on smart speaker. We are thrilled to share that RNIB Bookshare, for students who are print disabled and currently in education, now hosts over 1,000,000 titles from publishers in accessible EPUB and PDF formats.
https://www.rnib.org.uk/

Sensotec

Sensotec offers solutions to visual challenges and aims to provide access to audiobooks to as many visually impaired people as possible.

With the Daisybox, Sensotec brings the most user-friendly online DAISY player to the market. The Daisybox is a device that combines simplicity with powerful streaming capabilities, text-to-speech and audio playback, build-in help and online and offline reading. By keeping simplicity in mind, and its remotely customizable audio menu’s, the Daisybox is the ideal reading companion.

photo of the Daisybox from Sensotec
Caption: the Daisybox from Sensotec

In addition, Sensotec developed the SensoReader server, which is a Sensotec hosted generic DOPD server that can be shared with other organisations. This allows even smaller libraries worldwide to offer at low cost Daisybooks to their readers using the Daisy Standard and the Daisy Online Delivery Protocol. Daisy apps, such as the SensoReader app (available for iOS and Android) as well as hardware players can connect to the SensoReader server.

Lastly Sensotec is developing a smart speaker service that connects to DODP servers, allowing Alexa smart speakers to be used as an alternative to hardware online Daisy players.
https://www.online-daisy.com/
https://www.solutionsradio.nl/daisybox/

Sightsavers

Sightsavers is a UK-based international development organization working with partners in 33 countries across Africa and South Asia to eliminate avoidable blindness and support the empowerment of people with disabilities to learn, earn and participate equally in society. We have a proven track-record and strong reputation for delivering effective pan-disability education and social inclusion programs at scale.

In 2022, Sightsavers:

Led the development of a disability inclusion strategy for the UK government’s new education programme in Nigeria targeting up to two million learners

managed inclusive education projects in Bangladesh, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Mali, Uganda, and Zambia

obtained donor funding to roll out inclusive education for children with disabilities across Cameroon and Senegal

worked with local stakeholders in Mali and Pakistan to make learning assessments disability inclusive

supported the education of children with visual impairments across six states in India, particularly through ensuring they were able to access ICT.

https://www.sightsavers.org/

Swedish DAISY Consortium

In November 2022 the Swedish DAISY Consortium (SEDC) held a much appreciated conference to celebrate 20 years of development of accessible media.

The conference offered a historical perspective on the digitalization of talking books but also discussed the very idea of technical development.

During the conference, librarian Lynn Alpberg was award the prize Läsguldet by MTM’s director general for her unswerving work with accessible reading. One of the most appreciated parts of the conference was a panel discussion about how university students can be supported in starting to read accessible media.

photo from the SEDC conference
Caption: A presentation at the Swedish DAISY Consortium Conference

The conference was interpreted to Swedish Sign Language live and had live subtitles and is uploaded to MTM’s accessible video player.

At the AGM In November 2021, we welcomed Joakim Uppsäll-Sjögren as Chair and President of the Swedish DAISY Consortium (SEDC).

Financial Review 2022

Treasurer’s Report

The balance sheet, income statements and auditor’s report presented in this Financial Review are a summary of the 2022 Financial Report, which has been approved in its detailed form by the DAISY Consortium Board of Directors at its May 2023 meeting.

The Consortium finished the year with a surplus of 164 thousand dollars, which is just over 12% of revenue and exceeded expectations.

Our major source of income has traditionally been member fees and I am very happy to report that this year it has been matched by funded projects in 2022. The uncertainties brought about by the pandemic significantly impacted funding opportunities in recent years, but as we indicated last year, we were hopeful opportunities would emerge in 2022. The team have worked hard to secure the additional income for funded projects which has resulted in a positive balance.

I am pleased to report that DAISY continues to be in a good financial position and has maintained its capital reserve at the target level as well as bolster its strategic reserves. Whilst high inflation is a cause for concern and will no doubt impact DAISY finances to some degree in 2023/24 the Consortium has the financial stability to deal with it.

Alison Long
Treasurer

Independent Auditor's Report

Report of the statutory auditors to the General Meeting of the DAISY Consortium

As statutory auditors, we have audited the accounting records and the financial statements (balance sheet and income statement) of the DAISY Consortium for the year ended December 31st, 2022.

These financial statements are the responsibility of the board of management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audit. We confirm that we meet the legal requirements concerning professional qualification and independence.

Our audit was conducted in accordance with auditing standards promulgated by the Swiss profession, which require that an audit be planned and performed to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free from material misstatement. We have examined on a test basis evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. We have also assessed the accounting principles used, significant estimates made and the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.

In our opinion, the accounting records and financial statements comply with Swiss law and the company's articles of association.

We recommend that the financial statements submitted to you be approved.

Zurich, March 31, 2023

BETSCHON TREUHAND AG
Christian Schmid
Auditor in Charge

Balance Sheet as at 31 st December 2022

ITEM | 2022 | 2021
ASSETS |  |
Bank | 540 | 403
Accounts receivable | 12 | 55
Current Assets | 552 | 458
Capital assets | 0 | 0
Fixed assets | 0 | 0
TOTAL ASSETS | 552 | 458
LIABILITIES |  |
Accounts Payable | 17 | 4
Accruals | 57 | 140
LIABILITIES | 74 | 144
Capital reserve | 300 | 300
Strategic reserve | 178 | 14
Equity | 478 | 314
TOTAL LIABILITIES | 552 | 458

Operating Income and Expense 2022 - Summary

ITEM | 2022 | 2021
INCOME |  |
Full members | 507 | 488
Associate members | 70 | 79
Friends | 93 | 53
Total membership Fees | 670 | 629
Technical Training and Capacity Building | 237 | 279
Tools and Standards | 376 | 164
Other Projects and Miscellaneous | 59 | 108
Total Additional Income | 672 | 552
TOTAL INCOME | 1,342 | 1,180
EXPENSE |  |
People costs | 962 | 944
Administrative costs | 25 | 22
Other costs | 18 | 27
Standards | 9 | 30
Tools | 105 | 193
Technical training and support | 18 | 21
Communication, marketing, fundraising | 16 | 30
Organization structure and administration | 7 | 0
TOTAL EXPENSE | 1,178 | 1,267
BALANCE | 164 | -87

Your DAISY Consortium Board

In 2022 the DAISY Board members were as follows:

Chairman of the Board: Maarten Verboom, Dedicon, The Netherlands

Treasurer: Alison Long, Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), United Kingdom

John Brown, NLS/BPH The Library of Congress, USA (January-March)

Daniel Dam Freiling, Nota, Denmark

Tove Dannestam, Myndigheten för tillgängliga medier (MTM) Swedish Agency for Accessible Media, Representing the Swedish DAISY Consortium, Sweden (January-September)

Daniel Frelén, Myndigheten för tillgängliga medier (MTM) Swedish Agency for Accessible Media, Representing the Swedish DAISY Consortium, Sweden (October-December)

Nicole Gaines, American Printing House for the Blind (APH), USA (July-December)

Michael Johnson, Benetech/Bookshare, USA (April-December)

Won Jong-Pil, National Library for the Disabled (NLD), Republic of Korea

Prof. Dr. Thomas Kahlisch, dzb lesen (Deutsches Zentrum für barrierefreies Lesen) Representing Media Association for Blind and Vision Impaired and Print Disabled People (MediBuS), Germany

Hiroshi Kawamura, Assistive Technology Development Organization (ATDO), Japan

Flavia Kippele, SBS Schweizerische Bibliothek für Blinde, Seh- und Lesebehinderte, Representing the Swiss DAISY Group, Switzerland

Arne Kyrkjebø, Norsk lyd- og blindeskriftbibliotek, Representing the Norwegian DAISY Consortium, Norway

Scott LaBarre, National Federation of the Blind, USA

Francisco Martínez Calvo, Organización Nacional de Ciegos Españoles, O.N.C.E, Spain

Basile Mignonneau, Association Valentin Haüy, Representing DAISY France, France

Alice O’Reilly, NLS/BPH The Library of Congress, USA (April-December)

Brad Turner, Benetech/Bookshare, USA (January-March)

Minna von Zansen, Celia Library, representing the Finnish DAISY Consortium, Finland