International Symposium -Digital Textbook Accessibility-

DAISY Consortium (DC) is a leading international organization to develop open accessible standards (DAISY, EPUB 3) and support inclusive publishing efforts around the world. Taking advantage of the DC Board Meeting in Tokyo, the Japan DAISY Consortium, in collaboration with Japanese Society for Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities and The Nippon foundation, will co-host an international symposium on Digital Textbooks Accessibility to learn its international trends from lecturers and discuss how we ensure access to inclusive education in Japan.

• Host Organizations:Japanese Society for Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities, The Nippon Foundation and Japan DAISY Consortium
• Date and Time:13:30 to 16:30, Friday, November 18
• Venue:The Nippon Foundation Headquarters
• Language:English and Japanese (Simultaneous Interpretation from Japanese to English and vice versa)
• Information Support:Japanese Sign Language, Japanese Captions and English Captions

Program

• 13:30 Opening
  Moderator: Misako Nomura: Chief of The Secretariat, Japan DAISY Consortium
• 13:35-13:45 Welcome
  Yasunobu Ishii: Senior Program Director Disability and Child Welfare Team Social Innovation Program Division, The Nippon Foundation
  Junji Fukumo: Executive Director, Japanese Society for Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities
  
• 13:45-14:00 Keynote :
  Hiroshi Kawamura: Steering Committee Chairman, Japan DAISY Consortium/Vice President, Assistive Technology Development Organization
• 14:00-14:30 Lecture1
  How to achieve "born accessibility" of digital textbooks - The Dutch model
  Maarten Verboom: Director of Dedicon- the Kingdom of the Netherlands
• 14:30-15:00 Lecture2
  Providing Educational Content: Today, Tomorrow, and the Future
  Brad Turner: Vice President of Global Literacy, Benetech /Bookshare- The United States of America
• 15:00-15:10 Break
• 15:10-15:30 Lecture3
  EPUB Accessibility Conformance and Discovery Specification: the baseline for Educational Publishing
  George Kerscher: Chief Innovation Officer, DAISY Consortium/President of IDPF- The United States of America
• 15:30-16:25 Panel Discussion- Learn from the approach in England, Norway and India-
  Richard Orme: Chief Executive Officer, DAISY Consortium- The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
  Arne Kyrkjebo: Head of Development Department, Norwegian Library of Talking Books and Braille (NLB)- Norway
  Avneesh Singh: Chief Operating Officer, DAISY Consortium /Co-Chair, EPUB 3 accessibility working group- India
  
• 16:25-16:30 Closing by Hiroshi Kawamura
• 16:30-17:30 Pleasant Talk, Business Card and Information Exchange