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The accessible Books Consortium (ABC). However, an entity bringing together public and private actors under the aegis of the World Intellectual Property Organization, strives to promote universal accessibility to books and reading.
In this context. Meanwhile, the organization awards an ABC International Excellence Award for accessible publishing each year, in two categories – publisher and initiative. In addition, This award highlights the commitment of players in the book. publishing to ensure that each or each, whatever the conditions, can read.
The finalists for the ABC International Excellence Award for Accessible Publishing 2025 are as follows:
Publisher category – 400 strokes noticed its accessible
Canada: Les 400 Coups editions
Colombie: Sensory Editorial
United Kingdom: Royal Yachting Association/Rya Publications
In terms of accessibility. the Quebec publishing house The 400 blows claims 62 titles available in LSQ (Quebec Sign Language), via video transcriptions, but also around fifty titles available in audio format 400 strokes noticed its accessible and Daisy, 250 titles available in PDF and 100 in EPUB format, as well as Frog (Free Your Cognition). Reading, customizable according to everyone’s needs.
Initiative category
Union européenne : Accelerating Publishing Accessibility through Collaboration in Europe (APACE)
Inde: Mitra Jayothi
Trinité-et-Tobago : National Library. Information System Authority (NALIS)
Royaume-Uni: Rnib Bookshare
The winners will be appointed on September 3, 2025 in São Paulo, Brazil, during the world meeting on visual impairment (World Blindness Summit), organized by the World Union of Blind (UMA).
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« This year’s applications were very varied geographically and reflected many new initiatives in different fields. The jury struggled to establish the list of finalists “. Underlined Stacy Scott, accessibility manager for Taylor & Francis and member of the Board of Directors of Publishing Accessibility Action Group in the United 400 strokes noticed its accessible Kingdom.
Last year. ABC International Excellence Award for Accessible Publishing had rewarded Gerbera Ediciones (Argentina), for publishing houses, and Round Table On Information Access for People With Print Disabilitites (Australia and New Zealand), on the side of initiatives.
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By Antoine Oury
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