A subset of the DAISY format has been adopted by law in the United States as the National Instructional Material Accessibility Standard (NIMAS), and K-12 textbooks and instructional materials are now required to be provided to students with disabilities.ĭAISY is already aligned with the EPUB technical standard, and is expected to fully converge with its forthcoming EPUB3 revision. DAISY has wide international support with features for multimedia, navigation and synchronization. The Digital Accessible Information SYstem (DAISY) is an XML-based open standard published by the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and maintained by the DAISY Consortium for people with print disabilities. The indexing is both for keywords and for full text search.ĭAISY – ANSI/NISO Z39.86 Format: Multiple pages and embedded graphics are distributed along with metadata as a single compressed file. cba (ACE)ĬHM format is a proprietary format based on HTML.
