Accessible Books Consortium
The Accessible Books Consortium (ABC) is a public-private partnership led by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) focusing on accessibility.
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[edit] Overview
ABC includes organizations that represent people with print disabilities such as the World Blind Union (WBU); libraries for the blind; standards bodies, and organizations representing authors, publishers and collective management organizations.
[edit] Goal
Their goal is to increase the number of books worldwide in accessible formats - such as braille, audio, e-text, large print – and to make them available to people who are blind, have low vision or are otherwise print disabled.
[edit] Global Books service
The ABC Global Book Service, formerly known as the TIGAR Service, is an on-line catalogue that allows participating libraries for the blind and organizations serving people who are print disabled to obtain easily the accessible content they need.
The Service supports the goals of the Marrakesh VIP Treaty at a practical level. A participating library contributes its catalogue of accessible books and may request accessible digital books contributed by other organizations for the purpose of supplementing its collection. In those countries that have laws consistent with the Marrakesh VIP Treaty, such books can be transferred without requesting authorization of the copyright owner. For those countries that do not have such laws, ABC seeks authorization from the copyright owner prior to the transfer of requested books.
They also have resources for publishers.
[edit] Countries and Organizations
- Australia: Visability
- Australia: Vision Australia
- Bangladesh: Young Power in Social Action, YPSA
- Brazil: Dorina Nowill Foundation for the Blind
- Canada: Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB)
- Denmark: Danish National Library for Persons with Print Disabilities (NOTA)
- France: Association Valentin Haüy
- Finland: Celia Library
- Iceland: Icelandic Talking Book Library, HBS
- Ireland: National Council for the Blind of Ireland
- Israel: The Central Library for Blind and Reading Impaired People (CLFB)
- Korea: Korea National Library for the Disabled (NLD)
- Nepal: Action on Disability Rights and Development (ADRAD)
- Netherlands: Dedicon
- New Zealand: Blind Foundation
- Norway: Norwegian Library of Talking Books and Braille
- Poland: Dzial Zbiorów dla Niewidomych (DZDN)
- Portugal: Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (BnP)
- South Africa: South African Library for the Blind
- Sweden: Swedish Agency for Accessible Media (MTM)
- Switzerland: Association pour le Bien des Aveugles et malvoyants
- Switzerland: Swiss Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Print Disabled
- Switzerland: Bibliothèque Sonore Romande
- United Kingdom: Seeing Ear
- United States: National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS)
