Making Books Accessible for Visually Impaired People in Argentina

Digital Library for Change.
Tiflolibros, a digital library for the blind in Buenos Aires and the Accessible Books Consortium (ABC) are working tirelessly to bring accessible books to visually impaired people in Argentina. The ABC’s first project in Latin America uses funds provided by WIPO to produce 800 accessible educational books in Spanish by December 2017 for students who are blind or print disabled in primary and secondary schools. Thanks to this cooperation, Tiflolibros can increase its output significantly by obtaining the digital file behind a work from the publisher, which can then be easily converted into an accessible format such as audio or refreshable braille.
This is just one example of the work undertaken by the ABC, a multi-stakeholder partnership supporting the goals of the Marrakesh "Books for Blind" Treaty by increasing the number of books around the globe in accessible formats such as braille, audio and large print.
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Nice video, and a good explanation about the benefits from Marrakech Treaty