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		<title>“Born accessible” e-books is the grand plan for new e-publishing tool</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Feb 2018 22:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The European e-Accessibility Forum: opening up digital culture</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just as digital accessibility picks up more and more mainstream interest, certain topics within the accessibility field also begin gathering momentum. One such topic is accessible culture. Clearly, this can mean many things, but in this case it refers to cultural spaces (such as museums and art galleries), projects and resources being made more inclusive [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>A “tax on accessible books”: mixed emotions at Marrakesh Treaty progress</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 May 2017 12:42:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest agreement in the process of implementing the Marrakesh Treaty, which aims to help end the ‘book famine’ faced by blind and visually impaired people, has been met with a mixture of praise and frustration. The treaty aims to increase the availability of books in accessible formats, such as Braille and e-books, by relaxing copyright [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Kindle begins to find its voice with text-to-speech</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2016 01:21:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amazon is making its Kindle e-readers more accessible for visually impaired users by introducing a screen-reader feature. The VoiceView screen-reading function is now available on the Kindle Paperwhite model by plugging in the ‘Kindle Audio Adaptor’, a USB device designed by Amazon specifically for use with the Kindle. Users plug the adaptor into the Paperwhite [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Accessible book body to focus on developing countries</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2014 10:56:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dan Jellinek]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An initiative to increase production and dissemination of accessible format books for blind and print-impaired readers in developing countries has been launched by a group of international bodies. Members of the new Accessible Books Consortium (ABC) include the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO); the World Blind Union (WBU); the DAISY talking book format; the International [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>E-book access debate continues in US following legal waiver</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dan Jellinek]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The debate over whether all e-book readers should be made accessible – including the addition of sound capabilities – is set to continue in the US, after the country’s Federal Communications Commission granted reader manufacturers a temporary waiver to one accessibility regulation. The FCC has granted a one-year waiver exempting single-purpose e-book readers from a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Supply chain collaboration key to accessible e-books</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2014 16:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dan Jellinek]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People in all parts of the publishing chain – from device manufacturers to those developing content platforms – must work together to improve e-book accessibility, delegates at the London Book Fair heard this month. “No one player in the chain between author and reader can solve the problem of accessibility on their own … only [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Is EPUB the most accessible format? One Voice launches debate</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2014 15:28:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The EPUB electronic book format is the most accessible digital document format, according to a new paper designed to open a debate on accessibility of all mainstream document formats by people with disabilities. The debate – intended to lead to a further paper to be published in the summer – has been launched by One [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Top e-Book Reader Makers Contest US Accessibility Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Sep 2013 07:42:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tristan Parker]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three of the biggest e-book reader manufacturers – Amazon, Kobo and Sony – have petitioned the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to ask for exemptions from US laws requiring products to be accessible to users with disabilities. The three are urging the commission to waive parts of the 21st Century Video and Communications and Video [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>‘Historic’ Accessible Copyright Treaty is ‘Miracle In Marrakech’</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jul 2013 14:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tristan Parker]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An historic international treaty to increase book access for blind and visually impaired people has finally been adopted at a meeting of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) after almost six years of wrangling, negotiations and setbacks. Signed at a WIPO conference in Marrakech, Morocco, the treaty will allow exceptions to copyright laws so accessible [&#8230;]]]></description>
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