New AIPI participant: single national advocate for low vision
Vision 2020 Australia is now the single peak body for service providers working in the blindness and low vision sector, following the announcement last week regarding its integration with the Australian Blindness Forum (ABF) . With the ABF being a standing AIPI member, we welcome Vision 2020 to the initiative. Vision 2020 Australia CEO Judith […]
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eBooks and Accessibility : A Librarian’s Perspective
Written by Pam Schindler of University of Queensland Library, Brisbane As a librarian at a big university library, I see first-hand the vital importance of accessibility in the design of ebooks and ebook platforms. For students and staff with a print disability, it can make all the difference between being able to read the […]
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Accessible print for all: Sarah Runcie on the Australian Inclusive Publishing Initiative
This interview was originally published on the Books + Publishing platform. In October Sarah Runcie from the Australian Publishers Association (APA) travelled to Tokyo to address the Advanced Publishing Lab at Keio University about the APA’s Australian Inclusive Publishing Initiative (AIPI). She spoke to Books+Publishing about making publishing more inclusive and accessible for those with print disabilities. Can […]
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World-leading book accessibility initiative creating the dignity to read
Thirty individuals from more than 20 organisations met last week at Gilbert + Tobin Offices in Barangaroo, Sydney, for the third forum of the Australian Inclusive Publishing Initiative (AIPI). The AIPI is uniquely comprised of representatives from libraries, publishers, authors, editors, print disability peak bodies, copyright experts, and government agencies. The AIPI reflected on two years of […]
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