Table of Contents

Message from the President 3

Vision, Mission, Key Activities and Community 5

Vision 5

Mission 5

Key Activities 5

Community 5

2024: Year in Review 7

Developments 10

Training & Support 13

Member Spotlight 14

Financial Review 2024 24

Treasurer’s Report 24

Independent Auditor's Report 25

Your DAISY Consortium Board 28

Message from the President

Profile photo of Maarten Verboom
Caption: photo of Maarten Verboom, President of the DAISY Consortium

Access to information is not something we can take for granted. True accessibility is only achieved when the needs and abilities of all readers are considered from the very beginning of the publishing process. When this doesn’t happen, organizations like the members of the DAISY Consortium step in to make inaccessible content accessible. For many of our members, this remains a core responsibility.

In that regard, 2024 was a successful year. We made notable progress in standards development, tools, training, and support. These achievements were made possible thanks to the dedication and expertise of our team. You can read more about this throughout this annual report.

Beyond supporting our members in transforming content into accessible formats after publication, the DAISY Consortium strongly advocates for accessibility from the outset—born accessible publishing. The implementation date of the European Accessibility Act (EAA), June 28th, is approaching quickly. In anticipation, our member organizations are actively raising awareness, providing training, and supporting publishers in creating accessible publications. The DAISY Consortium supports these efforts by organizing webinars, maintaining a comprehensive knowledge base at inclusivepublishing.org, and hosting the European Inclusive Publishing Forum—a platform for stakeholders to exchange updates, initiatives, plans, and challenges as the EAA deadline draws near.

In 2024, the DAISY Consortium Board met twice. Our spring meeting was graciously hosted by the French DAISY group in Paris, the city of Valentin Haüy. Following this meeting, the Digital Publishing Summit, organized by EDRLab, took place.

In November, we were welcomed by Fundação Dorina Nowill para Cegos in São Paulo. We had the privilege of touring their impressive production facilities. After our meeting, we participated in the International Conference on Accessibility—an inspiring event featuring speakers from Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Mexico who showcased the work of their organizations in providing accessible information for people with visual impairments. Other speakers shared the potential and promise of inclusive publishing.

In 2024, the Board said farewell to Alison Long, a long-serving member representing the RNIB and the Consortium’s outgoing Treasurer. We thank her deeply for her contributions. Alice O'Reilly has stepped into the role of Treasurer, while David Williams joined to represent RNIB on the Board. Jong-Pil Won, who represented the Korean National Library for the Print Disabled, also stepped down this year and has been succeeded by Gumsook Hoang.

The DAISY Consortium owes much to the dedication of individuals like Alison Long, Alice O'Reilly, David Williams, Jong-Pil Won, and Gumsook Hoang. Our thanks extend to all our Board members, representatives, employees, and volunteers of the DAISY Consortium and our member organizations. Because of their tireless efforts, the world is becoming a more accessible place.

Maarten Verboom
President of the DAISY Consortium

Vision, Mission, Key Activities and Community

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 highlighting the DAISY Membership and communication network reach

2024: Year in Review

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.

Our thanks to Alison Long from the Royal National Institute of Blind People (UK) for their years of contributions to the DAISY Board including as Treasurer for the last two years. We are delighted to welcome Dave Williams from the Royal National Institute of Blind People to the Board. Our thanks to Alice O’Reilly for taking on the role of DAISY Treasurer.

Thank you to Won Jong-pil from National Library for the Disabled (Republic of Korea) for their contribution to the Board, thanks to Myungsook Kim for taking an interim Board role ahead of us welcoming Gumsook Hoang to the Board.

No changes were recorded to the DAISY Team in 2024.

DAISY Board and General Meetings

In May 2024 our Board and General Meetings took place in Paris, France, kindly hosted by Association Valentin Haüy as a representative of DAISY France, and held alongside the EDRLab Digital Publishing Summit.

Caption: George Kerscher delivering the keynote presentation at the Digital Publishing Summit 2024

Our November 2024 Board meeting were held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, kindly hosted by the Dorina Nowill Foundation for the Blind, in association with their International Conference on Accessibility.

Caption: The DAISY Board Meeting taking place in Sao Paulo, Brazil

Developments

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

Accessible Publishing Knowledge Base

Known globally as the definitive EPUB accessibility reference resource, the Knowledge Base is continually updated to reflect the latest best practices and support users in creating the most accessible EPUB files. Updates included improved navigation and content display, new resources on metadata, and details on text direction.
https://kb.daisy.org/publishing

Ace by DAISY

The Accessibility Checker tool for EPUB is used widely in both the specialist and mainstream publishing. Work continued behind the scenes to update Ace to support the latest testing processes and newer technologies.

https://inclusivepublishing.org/ace

Ace SMART

SMART is the Simple Manual Accessibility Reporting Tool for EPUB designed to aid people in performing the accessibility tests which cannot be automated. Updated included checking against WCAG 2.2 by default, and a discovery metadata wizard.
https://inclusivepublishing.org/smart

InclusivePublishing.org

The Inclusive Publishing site is established as the leading accessible publishing resource, regularly accessed by publishing professionals globally. The site is continually updated to keep the industry informed of news, technical developments, events, best practices and legislative developments.
https://inclusivepublishing.org

Obi

Our audiobook creation tool, Obi, is used globally by many specialist organizations as their primary audio book creation tool. A new major release delivered upgrades to the back-end, providing a robust framework on current technology. Improvements were also implemented to address known issues and improve To-Do functionality and time-based navigation.
https://daisy.org/obi/

Pipeline

Delivering a flexible yet powerful engine for cross-platform document processing and conversion, the DAISY Pipeline is a powerful framework used at the core of library services globally. Available as both a command line and desktop app, Pipeline received a series of updates including adding wider support for AI text to speech services, as well as conversion script enhancements for braille, audio, EPUB and DAISY formats.
https://daisy.org/pipeline/

Reading System Testing

We continue to test a wide range of reading systems to assess and offer feedback to developers and consumers about their accessibility, publishing the data on epubtest.org for everyone to review. Updates were made to the test books, including the addition of tests for MathML support.
http://epubtest.org

WordToEPUB Tool

The simple yet powerful converter tool for transforming accessible Word documents to EPUB is widely used in education, libraries and by small and independent publishers. Minor updates were performed on the code, with improvements also made to the guidance in readiness for a future release.
https://daisy.org/wordtoepub/

W3C Publishing

Throughout 2024 the DAISY team continued to drive accessibility in W3C in Publishing Groups and through W3C leadership, contributing to the maintenance of EPUB 3.3, EPUB Accessibility 1.1, EPUB Reading Systems 3.3, DPUB ARIA, Accessibility Platform Architecture and the User Experience Guide for Displaying Accessibility Metadata.
https://www.w3.org/publishing/

Special Projects

eBraille Project

The working group of international experts made significant progress in the creation of a modern, flexible, file format for electronic braille. Where possible the new format is being formed using existing mainstream technologies to ease development and facilitate adoption. Work toward the new format is being widely supported by organizations, including by the World Braille Council. Conversion tools are currently in development and scheduled for wider testing and release in 2025.
https://daisy.org/ebraille/

EPUBCheck

Under contract to W3C, EPUBCheck, the conformance checker for EPUB, received a maintenance release to address identified bugs and add some small but important features.
https://www.w3.org/publishing/epubcheck/

European Inclusive Publishing Forum

The European Accessibility Act continues to act as a motivator for parties across the publishing spectrum to work towards successful implementation, and the forum provides a platform for sharing best practices and resolving common challenges between regions implementing legislation.
https://daisy.org/euipf/

Music Braille

The music braille project is now in the implementation phase, supporting the adoption of the tools, widening the global network of practitioners, promoting accessible music to mainstream publishers, sharing teaching resources and facilitating communication.
https://daisy.org/music-braille/
https://daisy.org/accessiblemusicpublishing

Training & Support

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

Throughout 2024 training was delivered as a mixture of in-person and online events supported by webinars, digital handouts and online learning systems.

Training

A range of in-person and distance training was delivered throughout the year, including courses covering Sri Lanka, Trinidad and Tobago, Kenya, Uganda and Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, India.

We also introduced two trainer-led online courses on covering Accessible Document Creation and PowerPoint, supporting learners in India, Thailand, Nepal, New Zealand, Afghanistan, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Ireland, Kenya, Ghana, Uganda, Mexico, Canada and the United States.

Webinars

A year-long series of webinars counting down to the implementation of the European Accessibility Act was launched, delivering monthly events on topical issues, presented by industry experts to a global audience. Each event also delivered a set of enduring resource including a full recording, transcript, links, and a full description of the event.
https://daisy.org/webinars

Online Training

Our online learning site received further updates this year with the addition of new courses that are freely available, and updates behind the scenes to keep the site running smoothly.
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 2024.

Book Industry Study Group (BISG), USA

The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) works to understand and amplify DAISY's efforts to improve content accessibility. In the past year, BISG has created an accessibility metadata working group to help the U.S. book publishing market prepare for implementation of the European Accessibility Act in mid-2025 and expected updates to Title II requirements in 2026. Representatives from DAISY join these working group meetings to help advance industry understanding. Webinars describing EAA and Title II expectations are planned for the first half of 2025.
https://www.bisg.org/

BoinIT, Republic of Korea

BOINIT, in partnership with the National Institute of Special Education, has launched accessible EPUB and PDF/UA textbook services.

The EPUB format restructures content to optimize reading order for effective learning and enhances navigation features. Meanwhile, the PDF/UA format optimizes the original layout while supporting magnification and Text-to-Speech functions for individuals with low vision.

Illustration of a workflow converting a complex reading order on a print publication to a simple EPUB
Caption: illustration showing the workflow to create an EPUB from a textbook

This service is designed to help visually impaired students and educators access and understand textbooks in various formats more easily. It marks a significant step toward improving textbook accessibility. A short YouTube series of educational resources was created to help training (in Korean).
https://boinit.com/

Christian Library for the Blind and Visually Impaired (CBB), The Netherlands

In 2024, the CBB played a crucial role in Canon’s World Unseen campaign, which aimed to make photography accessible to blind and partially sighted individuals. By collaborating with Canon and RNIB, the CBB helped create tactile images featuring raised textures and braille descriptions, allowing visually impaired audiences to engage with photography in a multisensory way.

The World Unseen exhibition premiered at Somerset House in London from April 5th to 7th, attracting over 1,100 visitors. Following its success, the exhibition toured across Europe, reaching diverse audiences and further promoting accessibility in the arts.

The CBB’s expertise ensured high-quality tactile translations, making the images meaningful for all. This campaign set a new standard for inclusive design and showcased how technology can bridge accessibility gaps, reinforcing the CBB’s commitment to making culture and information available to everyone. photo of someone touching a tactile representation of a photo as part of an exhibition

Caption: image of the World Unseen tactile visual exhibition

http://www.cbb.nl/

DAISY France, France

At the end of May 2024 (29-30), Daisy France hosted the Board Meeting of the DAISY Consortium at the Philanthro-Lab. We had 46 people participating during both days in Paris and 10 more people participating online. This event was followed by the DPUB Summit from EDRLAB on the 31st of May with more than 100 people.

A key highlight of the year was the accessibility study commissioned by the French Ministry of Culture, conducted with the active participation of the Fédération des Aveugles et Amblyopes de France. This research assessed the real-world accessibility of websites for buying and borrowing digital books, providing critical insights into the challenges faced by visually impaired users. The findings underscored significant barriers, including complex purchasing and borrowing processes, inconsistent assistive technology support, and lack of clear user guidance.

These results take on particular importance as we approach the implementation of the European Accessibility Act (Directive (EU) 2019/882) in June 2025, which will impose stricter requirements on digital products and services. Through its continued advocacy and expertise, the DAISY France group remains committed to ensuring that digital reading platforms evolve towards true accessibility, enabling more equitable access to books and knowledge.
DAISY France Member Page

Dedicon, the Netherlands

User requirements for reading apps

Dedicon has been looking for a new reader that offers patrons more options for reading complex content. In 2024, we therefor tested existing readers, analysed user needs, sought international collaboration, and engaged with software providers. The conclusion: existing reading systems do not meet all complex needs. In November 2024 we proposed a project with the DAISY Consortium to develop user requirements for reading apps. The project Reading Apps User Requirements was commissioned by and will report to the DAISY Board.

Supporting publishers in accessibility compliance

In 2024 we continued to provide awareness and training sessions for Dutch and Flemish publishers in order for them to meet the accessibility legislation coming from the European Accessibility Act. Within the APACE project, Dedicon was responsible for organising the networking events, e.g. several Ask the Expert sessions and online and live meet-ups, for instance during the Frankfurt Book Fair.

https://www.dedicon.nl

eKitabu

eKitabu’s core mission is the distribution and publishing of accessible materials to promote inclusive and equitable quality education. In 2018, eKitabu launched a service to address the lack of reading materials for deaf and hard-of-hearing learners. Studio KSL develops and produces accessible digital materials in Kenyan Sign Language to support language acquisition and build communication skills, setting learners on a path to literacy. Studio KSL has delivered over 337 sign language videos and storybooks in six African sign languages, reaching about 3,500 learners in schools and attracting over 12 million viewers on Akili Kids TV.

Studio KSL won the MasterCard Foundation EdTech Fellowship for its Digital StoryTime (DST) which revolutionizes learning for Deaf children, enhances learning outcomes, and accelerates access to inclusive and equitable education across Africa, bringing forward learner’s first exposure to sign language ahead to before starting school, supporting early language acquisition and literacy.

Caption: A class watching a sign language video

https://www.ekitabu.com/

Fondazione LIA, Italy

The new APACE Project, led by LIA, organized many innovative training, awareness raising, and networking activities, including the Survey on analysis of skills gap gathering data on the adoption of accessibility practices among EU publishers. The results were presented at the Frankfurt Book Fair.

Six new organizations became members and LIA’s catalogue can now count more than 38,000 accessible e-books by 82 publishing imprints.

We broadened initiatives in Italy and globally, encompassing training and consultancy, accessibility audits for publications, websites, platforms, with a specific focus on textbooks and academic publishers and on the implementation of born accessible workflows.

Our R&D projects focused on applying generative AI tools to the semi-automatic creation of alternative image descriptions and on the creation of tools to support accessibility QA.

LIA continued leading W3C working groups and collaborated in providing consultancy to Adobe for the implementation of new InDesign accessibility features.

www.fondazionelia.org

Fundação Dorina Nowill para Cegos , Brazil

Fundação Dorina Nowill para Cegos is a non-profit and philanthropic organization. We have been working for the social inclusion of blind and low-vision children, young people, adults, and the elderly for over seven decades.

In 2024, Fundação Dorina hosted the official meeting of the DAISY Consortium in Brazil. This international meeting discussed fundamental topics on digital accessibility, with the presence of Daisy Consortium members and invited observers.

In addition to technical discussions, the event provided networking moments and connections between professionals and specialists in the field.

To mark the new phase of the Fundação Dorina in the digital publishing market, we held the First International Accessibility Conference, which brought together international and national specialists to discuss new perspectives and global realities on accessibility in the market and presented our innovative AI solution from the Braille Ecosystem.

Caption: presenters from the Dorina Nowill First International Accessibility Conference.

https://fundacaodorina.org.br/

Humanware, Canada

In 2024, HumanWare made significant strides in accessibility with the launch of the Monarch, a groundbreaking multi-line display that transforms how students read DAISY books. This innovative device is the first refreshable braille display to support the upcoming ebraille file format by DAISY, promising to enhance the learning experience for students who are blind or have a visual impairment.

We also introduced several updates to the Victor Reader Stream and Braille Readers, refining their functionality to provide a more seamless user experience. The addition of audio support on the Mantis further expanded its versatility, allowing users to import DAISY content and making it an even more valuable tool.

To extend our global reach, we expanded library support to France (with EOLE) and Lithuania, ensuring that more users worldwide have access to HumanWare’s cutting-edge technology. Our ongoing innovations continue to break barriers and enrich the lives of users everywhere.

https://www.humanware.com/

Light for the World, Austria

In Burkina Faso, Light for the World has advanced inclusive education for blind and visually impaired students through the Bookshare project, part of the One Class For All initiative. Over the past year, 42 accessible books were uploaded to digital libraries, 20 educators certified in inclusive materials, and 29 students received tablets with Bluetooth keyboards for independent learning. The project has been recognized at international conferences such as eLearning Africa and WSIS+20, and a trained local team ensures sustainability. In Ethiopia, more than 2,600 children with disabilities will now study in inclusive learning environments thanks to a successful emergency education project between Light for the World and UNICEF and partners including Berhan Lehetsanat and HPDO. In South Sudan, we launched sign language and braille training for teachers, and a Memorandum of Understanding was signed with key ministries and the University of Juba—laying the foundation for inclusive education where students with and without disabilities have equal access to learning and support.

Caption: a sign language lesson taking place in South Sudan.

https://www.light-for-the-world.org/

National Library for the Disabled, Republic of Korea

Following the enactment of the "EPUB accessibility for reading disabled people" Part 1 Authoring guidelines (KS X 6202-1) in May 2022, the National Library for the Disabled enacted the "EPUB accessibility for reading disabled people" Part 2 Conformance criteria by level (KS X 6202-2) as a national standard (KS) in January 2024.

Part 1 provides guidance on accessibility compliance at the EPUB production stage, and Part 2 defines level-by-level standards by dividing them into three levels according to the type of e-book (e.g. novels, educational books, professional books) and the complexity of editing.

https://www.nld.go.kr

National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled (NLS), USA

NLS continued enriching the collections; additions including network-produced braille, talking-book titles, NLS-produced narration and transcription, and commercially recorded audio titles converted to the talking-book format. The circulation of materials continues to be very strong across the NLS patron base; with an average of 100 items consumed per patron.

In support of continued Marrakesh Treaty implementation, NLS acquired 1,987 works in eight languages including 1,240 audiobooks, 741 braille books and six braille music scores from countries that are members of the treaty.

NLS hosted a multi-day seminar of the International Federation of Library Associations & Institutions (IFLA) Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities (LPD) Section, which brought together nearly 200 people, in-person and virtually, from 37 countries.

NLS began mass production of the next generation digital talking book machine (DA2). The DA2 enables user-friendly features including access to BARD, wireless and Bluetooth capabilities, and local device storage.

http://www.loc.gov/nls

ONCE, Spain

Most of the adaptations produced by the ONCE Bibliographic Service (SBO) are in the Daisy audio format. To improve our production of audio materials using synthetic voices, the SBO has worked in adding Amazon Web Service's voices to the ones already in use—namely, Google’s and Microsoft’s. To speed up this process, ONCE has shared their own programming code with the Pipeline development team.

The year before the 200th anniversary of the braille code, ONCE started exploring all the options that technology may allow us to improve our braille production as well. We are at the early stages of a pilot test to explore the possibilities of braille transcription using AI. By comparing printed books with their braille counterpart, we are trying to train a software tool that will allow us to automate braille transcription in the future. The work of our technicians is essential, as they provide feedback to both the project developers and the AI itself. We will focus on simple texts first, but as objectives are achieved, we will try to cover more complex documents.

http://www.once.es

Sightsavers, UK

Sightsavers is a UK-based international development organisation 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 2024 Sightsavers:

managed or supported inclusive education projects in Bangladesh, Cameroon, Kenya, Pakistan, Senegal, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Uganda, and Zambia.

finalised guidance on how to support children with disabilities in low and middle income settings using educational technology.

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

https://www.sightsavers.org

Taylor & Francis (T&F), UK

Taylor & Francis is committed to ensuring all our products, platforms and websites are accessible to as wide an audience as possible. In 2024 we continued to improve the quality and accessibility of our content through a series of initiatives.

We created a single view of our digital products and their accessibility reporting status, to prioritise and schedule Accessibility Statements and Conformance Reports in preparation for the European Accessibility Act (EAA).

Onboarding our digital products to a third-party auditing tool, to ensure digital governance, with a mix of automated and manual testing.

We created and remediated a range of content:

18,500 EPUBs created.

1,250 EPUB2 titles remediated to EPUB3.

10,500 new eBook conversions.

899 alternative format requests were supported through T&F books and journals request service.

To learn more about what we’ve been working on, please read the T&F Corporate Accessibility Statement.

https://taylorandfrancis.com/

Textalk, Sweden

In 2024, Textalk has made significant advancements in our conversion product Webarch.
A major milestone is the integration of Text-to-Speech (TTS) production using leading online services such as Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Amazon Polly, and OpenAI. This enhancement has greatly improved automation, scalability, and voice quality.
Additionally, we have implemented support for MathCAT as a preprocessor for TTS production. This innovation enables the seamless conversion of complex course materials, ensuring high-quality audio output while significantly reducing costs compared to manual narration.
These developments mark a major step forward in making educational and informational content more accessible and efficient to produce.

http://www.textalk.se

Financial Review 2024

Treasurer’s Report

The balance sheet, income statements and auditor’s report presented in this Financial Review are a summary of the 2024 Financial Report, which has been approved in its detailed form by the DAISY Consortium Finance Committee.

The Consortium finished the year with a deficit of 147.000 thousand dollars. Additionally, it was decided to combine the strategic and capital reserve accounts into one reserve account.

Our major sources of income have continued to be split between membership and other sources.  The team continued to work towards securing additional income for funded projects as well as deliver tools and standards for members.

While the deficit balance is not ideal, DAISY has the reserves for continued operations, and the team has taken positive steps to increase income from memberships as well as other sources.

Alice O’Reilly

DAISY Consortium 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, 2024.

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, 2025

BETSCHON TREUHAND AG
Christian Schmid
Auditor in Charge

Information on the principles applied in the financial statements

The financial statements are made under the provisions of the Swiss Accounting legislation, (Title 32 of the Code of Obligations OR) in particular the article on the account books and accounting of Swiss Accounting law (OR Art. 957-962).

Balance sheet and income statement are made in USD.

BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31 st DECEMBER 2024

ITEM | 2024 | 2023
ASSETS |  |
Bank | 393 | 527
Accounts receivable | 61 | 133
Accrued income | -7 | -23
Current Assets | 447 | 636
Capital assets | 0 | 0
Fixed assets | 0 | 0
TOTAL ASSETS | 447 | 636
LIABILITIES |  |
Accounts Payable | 16 | 12
Accruals | 11 | 56
LIABILITIES | 27 | 69
Capital reserve | 567 | 478
Current Year Surplus / Deficit | -147 | 89
Equity | 420 | 568
TOTAL LIABILITIES | 447 | 636

OPERATING INCOME AND EXPENSE 2024 - SUMMARY

ITEM | 2024 | 2023
INCOME |  |
Full members | 561 | 548
Associate members | 73 | 69
Friends | 101 | 77
Total membership Fees | 735 | 694
Technical Training and Capacity Building | 127 | 219
Tools and Standards | 160 | 320
Other Projects and Miscellaneous | 93 | 89
Earned Interest | 6 | 0
Total Additional Income | 386 | 628
TOTAL INCOME | 1,121 | 1,321
EXPENSE |  |
People costs | 1,033 | 982
Administrative costs | 27 | 30
Board meetings and other costs | 76 | 26
Standards | 3 | 3
Tools | 75 | 114
Technical training and support | 4 | 20
Communication, marketing, fundraising | 36 | 33
Organization structure and administration | 14 | 23
TOTAL EXPENSE | 1,268 | 1,232
BALANCE | -147 | 89

Your DAISY Consortium Board

In 2024 the DAISY Board members were as follows:

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

Treasurer: Alice O’Reilly, NLS/BPH The Library of Congress, USA

David Andrews, National Federation of the Blind, USA

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

Daniel Dam Freiling, Nota, Denmark

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

Gumsook Hoang, National Library for the Disabled (NLD), Republic of Korea

Michael Johnson, Benetech/Bookshare, USA

Myungsook Kim, National Library for the Disabled (NLD), Republic of Korea

Prof. Dr. Thomas Kahlisch, DZB (Deutsche Zentralbücherei für Blinde) Representing Media Association for Blind and Vision Impaired 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

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

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

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

Dave Williams, Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), United Kingdom

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