Memberships
Industry associations and computing standards groups Design Science is
affiliated with.
The Assistive Technology Industry Association ("ATIA") is a not-for-profit
membership organization of manufacturers, sellers or providers of
technology-based assistive devices and/or services.
The DAISY Consortium was formed in May, 1996 by talking book libraries to
lead the worldwide transition from analog to Digital Talking Books. DAISY
denotes the Digital Accessible Information System.
IDEAlliance is an established industry organization with a diverse and
impressive membership that has been developing, educating and validating best
practices in publishing and information technology for 40 years. Through special
interest groups, conferences and its active membership, IDEAlliance offers its
members an inside track into how the publishing and content-driven supply chain
can and will be exploited to respond to both traditional and emerging pressures
to reduce cost, increase the top line, and develop new lines of business.
The International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF), formerly the Open eBook
Forum (OeBF), is the trade and standards association for the digital publishing
industry. Our members consist of academic, trade and professional publishers,
hardware and software companies, digital content retailers, libraries,
educational institutions, accessibility advocates and related organizations
whose common goals are to advance the competitiveness and exposure of digital
publishing.
At Microsoft, we strive to build technology for everyone. Accessible
technology enables opportunity for people of all abilities—including those with
difficulties, impairments, and disabilities—to scale new heights and achieve
goals they never thought possible.
OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards)
is a not-for-profit, international consortium that drives the development,
convergence, and adoption of e-business standards. The consortium produces more
Web services standards than any other organization along with standards for
security, e-business, and standardization efforts in the public sector and for
application-specific markets. Founded in 1993, OASIS has more than 5,000
participants representing over 600 organizations and individual members in 100
countries.
The STEM Education Coalition is a national advocacy
group composed of a diverse range of organizations representing all sectors of
the technological workforce – from knowledge workers, to educators and education
researchers, to scientists, engineers, and technicians. The Coalition works
aggressively to raise awareness in Congress and throughout the Executive Branch
about the critical role that STEM education plays in enabling the U.S. to remain
the economic and technological leader of the global marketplace of the 21st
century.
W3C primarily pursues its mission through the creation of Web standards and
guidelines. Since 1994, W3C has published more than ninety such standards,
called W3C Recommendations. W3C also engages in education and outreach, develops
software, and serves as an open forum for discussion about the Web. In order for
the Web to reach its full potential, the most fundamental Web technologies must
be compatible with one another and allow any hardware and software used to
access the Web to work together. W3C refers to this goal as “Web
interoperability.” By publishing open (non-proprietary) standards for Web
languages and protocols, W3C seeks to avoid market fragmentation and thus Web
fragmentation.
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Assistive
Technology Industry Association
DAISY
W3C