Tag: print accessibility

Dr Agata Mrva-Montoya from Sydney University (a participant of AIPI) is pleased to share the results of research conducted with two groups in 2020. The first project collected information from staff at disability service organisations and universities to ascertain what and who is involved in the conversion of print books. The second report collected information […]

A road map of activity for 2020 to improve print accessibility in Australia has been established by the Australian Inclusive Publishing Initiative (AIPI). Training for publishers, a panel discussion at the BookUp Conference, success stories on the AIPI Knowledge Hub, Accessibility Plans developed by each AIPI member, and exploring an inclusive publishing index are some […]

The 22 per cent** of the Australian population with a print disability will be closer to accessing more books sooner as a result of new guides and the AIPI online knowledge hub launched last week. The Australian Inclusive Publishing Initiative (AIPI) – a world-leading group comprised of disability institutions, book industry organisations, copyright bodies and government – aims to open […]

Fiona Phillips is a copyright expert and a popular commentator on intellectual property law and policy. Fiona has been part of the Australian Inclusive Publishing Initiative since its inception. In this article Fiona shares her experience of reading for pleasure over time as her vision has diminished and how she now goes about reading a […]

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 […]

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 […]

Tony Starkey, Policy, Accessibility and Client Consultant for the Royal Society for the Blind, shares with the APA his story of becoming vision impaired and how it impacted his reading and career. Alongside his personal history, Tony takes us through time pinpointing the technical innovations in making books more accessible over the years. Tony is […]