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Last year, the European Accessibility Act was passed. FEP – Federation of European Publishers and IPA – International Publishers Association, in Frankfurter Buchmesse professional program, organise the event “European Accessibility Act: a chance for publishers. All you need to know from international accessibility experts” to highlight the opportunities of the law for publishers and feature statements. The event is organised in collaboration with Aldus Up, the European book fairs network, and with the support of Fondazione LIA.
Friday, October 16
11:30 – 12.30 h CEST
Any publisher selling their e-books in Europe in 2025 and all the actors of the e-publishing supply chain will need to respect the European Accessibility Act . This panel gathers international accessibility experts who will tell you everything you need to know about the act and how to be compliant. The European Commission and the World Intellectual Property Organisation will present the Act before industry experts will answer questions like: why is the Act so important? what makes a publication accessible? How can be sure that an e-book is accessible? What platforms can I use? What e-readers can I use?
Chaired by Anne Bergman-Tahon (FEP).
Expert on e-book accessibility. Audrain was Head of digitalization of Hachette Livres.
Director of Federation of European Publishers since 2004. She has a background in medieval history and copyright law from Brussels University and King’s College London.
CTO / IT Director at Società editrice Il Mulino; software project leader, architect and developer in a wide variety of business applications.
President of the Federation of European Publishers.
Headof ABC-Accessible Books Consortium. Head of WIPO-World Intellectual Property Organization.
University of Leipzig. He studied computer science at the universities of Dresden and Karlsruhe. He wrote PhD thesis on human computer interaction.
Secretary General of the LIA Foundation. Mussinelli is also AIE consultant for digital publishing, member of the Board of EDRLab, co-chair of the W3C Digital Publishing Business Group, member of the Daisy Consortium and invited expert of the section ISO OT UNI / CT 014 / SC 04 “Automation and documentation”.
Senior Expert in the Unit Disability and Inclusion at the European Commission.
Accessibility and Publishing Standards Lead at Rakuten Kobo. She is also the Chair of the EPUB Working Group at the W3C, Chair of the Publishing Working Group, and Editor of the Audiobooks specification.
President of the International Publishers Association, where he has also served on its Executive Committee from 2004 to 2010 and from 2013 to present.
The event will be streamed on www.buchmesse.de/B2Bevents and is free of charge. In order to access the stream digital, visitors require merely an account with MyBookFair (free-of-charge): services.book-fair.com/login. Pre-registration is not required.
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The summit was made possible thanks to the countribution of Direzione generale Educazione, ricerca e istituti culturali del Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali e per il turismo