Profile

George Kerscher

Secretary General of the DAISY Consortium

“In the Information Age, access to information is a fundamental human right” -UN 2001

He started innovations ininformation technology in 1987, and coined the term “print disabled.”He believes that properly designed information systems that use structured markup, such as XML, can make all information accessible to all people, and is pushing the evolving technologies in that direction.

George Kerscher is dedicated to developing technology to make information not only accessible, but fully functional in the hands of persons who are blind or who have a print disability.

As Secretary General of the DAISY Consortium and Senior Officer of Accessible Technology at Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic in the USA, Kerscher is a recognized leader in document access. In addition, Kerscher chairs the DAISY/NISO Standards committee, co-chairs the W3C's Steering Council for the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), and serves on the IDPF and NIMAS Boards.