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Objective

DAISY (Digital Accessible Information System) is accessible multimedia developed and promoted internationally by the DAISY Consortium (DC) to address problems that various "people with reading difficulties" such as those with visual, developmental, intellectual or mental disabilities share. Multimedia in DAISY format can ensure rich reading experience for anyone that can either see or hear or touch. Therefore DAISY books, textbooks in particular, are rapidly becoming widespread in Europe and the US.

In Japan, the revised copyright law that came into effect on 1st January 2010 has greatly improved the reading environment for people with disabilities and there has been a fast-growing interest among people with various reading difficulties who had not experienced DAISY reading due to the copyright law.

Consequently, to support people with various reading difficulties such as dyslexia who have long been excluded from reading activities, by making the best use of DAISY and the revised copyright law, we will focus on the DAISY technologies which are becoming popular all over the world as well as emerging de-facto standard for commercial e-publishing called ePUB, and hold a symposium to learn the latest DAISY development and discuss the future of DAISY in Japan.

The speakers are world class front runners of Research and Development around DAISY and ePUB including: President of the DAISY Consortium, President of the IDPF developing and promoting ePUB, DAISY Technical Development Team Leader based in France, DAISY production/playback software developer who has dyslexia himself, and the DAISY Consortium Chief Technical Officer who has been promoting e-Inclusion based in Sweden at TPB (the Swedish Library of Talking Books and Braille).

After the presentations by these guest speakers on the present and future e-books that "everyone can read" and digital library based on DAISY, we will exchange ideas among our panelists and speakers on the implementation of DAISY in Japan including legal and institutional issues with reference to examples in the US where provision of school textbooks in DAISY format by publishers is required by law, and discuss the outlook for realizing a society in Japan where "everyone can read".