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Funding and governance of library and information services for visually impaired people: international case studies

Part2:Country studies

Sweden

Preferred situation

Description

The ideal would be that the publishing industry not the tax payers took their responsibility for all their readers.

Who would deliver

If the publishers made all their publications accessible there would be several arenas for access to alternate material, both bookshops, internet shops and libraries.

How would organisations work together

The same as already happens in the Swedish model of library service to the disabled.

How the services would be delivered

Either by downloading in computer or streaming Daisy via mobile telephone, but hopefully library visits and postal services would still exist.

Ideal level of service

All printed material should be accessible, which would be possible if the material was made in XML.