DAISY stands for Digital Accessible Information System and is an open, internationally established standard.
In March 2016, there were over 100,000 audiobooks, more than 18,000 Braille titles, around 3,000 e-books and 150 books in sign language.
A Braille library was established in Stockholm in 1892 by Amy Segerstedt, director of Tysta skolan (lit.
On 1 January 2013, the Audiobook and Braille Library changed its name to Myndigheten för tillgängliga medier ('the Agency for Accessible Media').
One of the reasons for the name change was that its assignment has been broadened from audiobooks and Braille books to include other accessible media.
[6] The agency publishes three free publications, Läsliv, Vi punktskriftsläsare, and Boktidningen Lättläst.
[7][8] MTM cooperates with similar agencies in the Nordic countries: the Norwegian Library of Talking Books and Braille, Nota in Denmark, Celia [fi] in Finland; and the Icelandic Hljóðbókasafns Íslands [is].