Includ-ed, red europea de educación inclusiva

Abigail Rekas, who attended the WIPO Diplomatic Conference at Marrakesh in June 2013, makes a compelling case for all published and digital content to be made accessible for persons with disabilities.

This copyright treaty sets a precedent as it aims to be the first treaty – ever – on exceptions and limitations to benefit a user group. You may ask why, for the first time, is there a political will to create a treaty that does not strengthen and extend the protection provided to the content industries? The answer is simple: This treaty is an important step in the fight to end the Book Famine experienced by persons with disabilities that renders standard print format material inaccessible. These disabilities include, but are not limited to, blindness, low vision, dyslexia, and physical inability to use or handle a book (for the purposes of this blog post, I will refer to all of these disabilities collectively as "print disabilities").