Title:
Accessibility of top 1,000 titles of 2010
Author(s):
Claire Creaser, LISU
Publisher:
RNIB
Year of publication:
2011
Background:
In 2010, RNIB commissioned LISU to undertake research to identify a baseline for how many of the 1,000 most popular books of 2009 were available in unabridged audio, braille and large print. The objective was to provide a baseline against which to measure progress towards their strategic target:
"Blind and partially sighted people are able to read the 1,000 most popular books each year in their preferred format eg audio, braille or large print."
This report presents the results of this second study, and relates them to the baseline figures obtained for 2009.
Key findings:
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In total, 147 (15 per cent) of the 2010 'Top 1,000' titles are available in all three preferred formats of human speech (ie read by human voice) audio, hard copy braille and hard copy large print.
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An additional 397 titles (40 per cent) are available as accessible eBooks, enabling readers to use synthetic speech audio, electronic braille and/or electronic large print, and bringing the total number of accessible titles to 544 (54 per cent).
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In electronic formats, 446 titles (45 per cent) are available as fully accessible eBooks (enabling readers to use all three of synthetic speech audio, electronic braille and electronic large print). A further 263 titles (26 per cent) are available in electronic large print only. There are overlaps in the titles available in traditional and electronic formats.
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