Hi Tom.
Your unfortunately right on the british government and on them washing their
hands on access, indeed up until 2005 if an agency wanted! to produce
acessible books in the Uk they'd need to buy the copywrite to do so, and
while this law has been changed, nobody as far as I know has gone against
the wishes of the publishing industry for access purposes.
One correction however. The rnib aren't the only! agency in Britain, the
problem is they have the most funding. For instance, Calibre are a volunteer
run cassette library I've had huge amount fo respect for, who produce a wide
variety of books. The problem? they get no government funding, or big
charitable contributions that the rnib do.
Ditto with smaller groups like action for blind people. So, while it is!
possible to find other agencies than the rnib, they don't really have half
the same clout or resources unfortunately.
Beware the grue!
dark.
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