The ELEVEN and the Federation of Editors’ Guilds of Spain (FGEE) This Thursday they signed an agreement by which the publishers of this entity will make their bibliographic material available to the Organization to reproduce it in different accessible formats for people who are blind or visually impaired.
At the signing, which took place at the facilities of the Typhlological Museum of the ELEVENPresent were the deputy general director of Social Services for Members of ONCE, Andrés Ramos; the director of the ONCE Bibliographic Service, Carmen Bayarri; and the president of the FGEE, Daniel Fernández.
This agreement will make it possible for blind people to access culture and education on equal terms, since affects numerous titles belonging to more than 800 publishers those represented by the FGEE, almost all of the private publishing and the majority of Spanish publishing production.
Thus, ONCE will be able adapt to any accessible format those copies that the publishers belonging to the FGEE transfer to the ONCE Bibliographic Service – which will see its catalog increasing -, guaranteeing the inclusion of blind and visually impaired people and demonstrating the commitment of both parties to promote the training and cultural enrichment of all people, without exclusion.
This agreement will sponsor a considerable reduction in production times for accessible formatsespecially braille and soundwhich results in greater accessibility of reading.
In that sense, Andrés Ramos highlighted that “having great traveling companions is one of the realities that we promote most at ONCE and ensuring that this immense world of booksellers and publishers Join us in accessible reading It is going to be a spectacular adventure, with palpable results very soon.”
Along the same lines, Daniel Fernández argued that one of the missions of the entity he presides consists of “ensure and promote reading among all people in our country” and specified that “it is in our interest to help those people who have a visual problem to make our content accessible so that everyone can have at their disposal both the editorial news and the catalog content of our publishers.”
