2008 Equality Award Laureate
DAISY Consortium
| Laureate Country: United States |
| Project Countries: 45 countries, including Brazil, China, Germany, Japan, South Africa, and Vietnam |
| Website: http://www.daisy.org |
| Video: 2008videos/DAISY_Consortium.mov |
The DAISY Consortium's AMIS project uses technology to make printed information accessible to people with disabilities around the world, free of cost.
Millions of people lack access to information because of disabilities from blindness to dyslexia. For those who cannot afford expensive reading software, or who speak languages the software doesn't, the barrier to information is nearly insurmountable.
AMIS is free playback software for books in the DAISY format, the international standard for integrating text, images, and audio for print-disabled readers. Because AMIS is free, it breaks barriers to information. And AMIS is available in 20 languages, so it makes information accessible to people in many more places than any other software. AMIS is open source, so it continues to be adapted into more languages, expanding equal information access across the globe.
