Through the Accessible Books Consortium (ABC), we learn that blind and partially sighted readers will have access to more titles thanks to an agreement signed recently by EBU’s UK member, the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to join the ABC Global Book Service.
The addition of the leading UK sight loss charity’s collection to the ABC catalogue will raise the number of accessible titles made available by ABC under the framework of the Marrakesh Treaty to more than one million books.
There are around two million people in the UK living with some form of sight loss. Through this partnership, RNIB will enable blind, visually impaired or otherwise print disabled people to obtain accessible books in more than 80 languages. In return, RNIB’s large collection of high quality accessible books will become available to ABC beneficiaries around the world.
Read more on the ABC website.