The Marrakesh Treaty on Counterpoint, Radio National
This radio segment was aired on Counterpoint, Radio National, on 4 December 2017, where Amanda Vandstone spoke with AIPI participant Fiona Phillips. Words from RN website: The Marrakesh Treaty which came into effect recently will help an estimated 285 million people worldwide have greater access to books published in accessible formats such as large print, braille or audio. […]
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Marrakesh Treaty Comes into Force by Fiona Phillips
This article was originally published on the Australian Copyright Council’s news page. Marrakesh Treaty Comes into Force by AIPI participant Fiona Phillips In September the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired or Otherwise Print Disabled will come into force. Australia is among the countries who […]
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Book of the future is a choose-your-own-adventure
This article was originally published in the Sydney Morning Herald, written by Linda Morris, on 5 November 2017. Imagine a future where the mass-produced paperback is regarded as a bookshelf dinosaur; where the reader can buy their favourite story, hand-select their preferred font, text spacing and format, and can switch from the printed word to […]
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Huw Alexander from textBOX: an industry service provider
Huw Alexander is the Chief Operating Officer of textBOX, a company that launched in 2018 in San Francisco and London that specialises in providing high-quality, accessible image descriptions for the publishing industry. textBOX helps to solve the issues that publishers encounter in making their content accessible for the print disabled. Their staff’s publishing background and […]
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