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IFLA Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities Seminar August 2024

The IFLA Library Services for Persons with Print Disabilities Section (LPD) Section organized a seminar hosted by the National Library Service of the Library of Congress in Washington DC, USA, from 20-24 August 2024. This international seminar offered a great…

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Online Training Enables Accessible Learning at Cairo University

Meet Helary, Menna, and Nourhan: students at Cairo University’s Foreign Languages and Translation program, Spanish department. Together this group, united by a shared passion for making education more accessible and inclusive, created their first accessible EPUB book. Through the DAISY…

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Technical Approaches to Upgrading the Backlist for the EAA, T-339 Days (W)

In our new series of EAA monthly webinars July 24th saw a session focused on the complexities of reworking existing materials to incorporate accessibility. This can vary greatly depending on the nature of the published content. There are however a series…

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Born-Accessible Music Publishing: Enabling the Creation of Accessible Digital Scores

The DAISY Music Braille Project identified the need to develop and promote a ‘born-accessible’ agenda in the mainstream music publishing industry, to help get scores to musicians with print-disabilities in suitable formats. Music scores are typically only published in print,…

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EAA Backlist Confusion – Looking at Regional Differences

The European Accessibility Act comes into effect in June 2025, bringing with it a diverse range of requirements designed to improve the accessibility of products and services for people with disabilities. The implications of the legislation reach far beyond the…

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