George Kerscher

George Kerscher
Secretary General, Daisy Consortium

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George Kerscher Ph.D. – “In the Information Age, access to information is a fundamental human right.”

George Kerscher began his IT innovations in 1987 and coined the term “print disabled.” George is dedicated to developing technologies that make information not only accessible, but also fully functional in the hands of persons who are blind or who have a print disability. He believes properly designed information systems can make all information accessible to all people and is working to push evolving technologies in this direction.

As Secretary General of the DAISY Consortium and President of the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF), Kerscher is a recognized international leader in document access. In addition, Kerscher is the Senior Officer of Accessible Technology at Learning Ally in the USA. He chairs the DAISY/NISO Standards committee, the EPUB Maintenance working group and the W3C’s Steering Council for the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). George also serves on the USA National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard (NIMAS) Board.

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1:40pm Monday, 02/11/2008
Making Digital Publishing Accessible to Persons Who are Blind and Print Disabled
Digital Strategy, General, Open Access Shubert/Uris
George Kerscher (Daisy Consortium), Arnie Zucker (NDS Technologies Ltd.), Ivan Lagacé (HumanWare), Garth Conboy (eBook Technologies, Inc.)
Technology has made it possible for publishers to profitably expand to include persons who are blind and print disabled. The growing legal demands to serve this population makes this a timely issue. Read more.
DAISY: The Best Way to Read, the Best Way to Publish
George Kerscher (Daisy Consortium)
DAISY multimedia standards provide publishers with the technologies that allow full rich synchronized multimedia in a cross-platform environment.
Open Source Publishing Tools from the DAISY Consortium
George Kerscher (Daisy Consortium)
A suite of open source tools licensed under LGPL that can assist publishers to create and transform multimedia products will be presented.
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