Keynote+Speaker

George Kerscher **George Kerscher, Secretary General, DAISY Consortium President IDPF Board of Directors**

-UN 2001
 * "in the Information Age, access to information is a fundamental human right"**

He started innovations in information technology in 1987, and coined the term "print disabled." 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. He believes that properly designed information systems can make all information accessible to all people, and is working to push the evolving technologies in that direction.

As Secretary General of the DAISY Consortium and President of the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF), Kerscher is a recognized international leader in document access. In addition, Kerscher is the Senior Officer of Accessible Technology at Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic in the USA, chairs the DAISY/NISO Standards committee, chairs the EPUB Maintenance working group, chairs the W3C's Steering Council for the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), and serves on the USA National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard (NIMAS) Board.

**Links**

Alliance for technology access

Academic Success through Assistive Technologies

Described And Captioned Media Program

National Assisstive Technology Research Institute