We are living in the technology era and all the former hurdles of human mankind are overcome through these new technologies including accessibility barriers of disabilities. Amazon Kindle helps the visually impaired people to read books as like non-disabled. Many of the publishers (oxford, Cambridge) are providing soft copies of their publications on the same price of the hard copy. However, all publishers are not facilitating in the same manner. As a result, visually impaired people are supposed to alter the original form of the books for their reading. Visually impaired student and faculties are depending on the derivative work of the copyrighted reading materials for their reading. It is too tough for a blind or low vision person to read a text book in paperback form (hard copy); He require an enlarge format of the book font (increase font) or book in Braille form or book in audio form for reading the books. Considering this typical need, WIPO copyright treaty 2012 has permitted the visually impaired people or their helpers to alter the original form of a books/reading materials in to an accessible form and declared that their acts are not considered as infringement of copyright. Some websites like bookshare.com provide books to the visually impaired people with nominal cost and reduce their book famine. The dynamic of this subject coupled with the very negligible demand of the people, the regional publishers are not providing soft copies of their books to the printly disabled people. The condition of the print disabled law student and faculty becomes worse if they are studying and teaching law in vernacular languages. Though judgments and scholarly articles are available in some online sites still, text books on regional laws are not available in soft copies. So, they have to spend much of their time and energy for getting those books in accessible form. Being a former law student and working in a law institution, the author has experienced such hurdles as well. In this chapter, the author has discussed how book famine affect the visually impaired faculties and students in the law schools and what are the coping strategies they adapt for overcoming their barriers and what are the steps to be taken for providing accessible inclusive legal education to the visually impaired students and faculties by various stakeholders including publishers. The author has written this chapter based on his own experience as a former visually impaired student who has come from a poor family and current law teacher in a premier law school in India along with the shared experience of his fellow visually impaired students, faculties and advocate.

Accessible Legal Resources: Indian Visually Impaired Faculties and Students Perspective

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2026年

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A. Marisport

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We are living in the technology era and all the former hurdles of human mankind are overcome through these new technologies including accessibility barriers of disabilities. Amazon Kindle helps the visually impaired people to read books as like non-disabled. Many of the publishers (oxford, Cambridge) are providing soft copies of their publications on the same price of the hard copy. However, all publishers are not facilitating in the same manner. As a result, visually impaired people are supposed to alter the original form of the books for their reading. Visually impaired student and faculties are depending on the derivative work of the copyrighted reading materials for their reading. It is too tough for a blind or low vision person to read a text book in paperback form (hard copy); He require an enlarge format of the book font (increase font) or book in Braille form or book in audio form for reading the books. Considering this typical need, WIPO copyright treaty 2012 has permitted the visually impaired people or their helpers to alter the original form of a books/reading materials in to an accessible form and declared that their acts are not considered as infringement of copyright. Some websites like bookshare.com provide books to the visually impaired people with nominal cost and reduce their book famine. The dynamic of this subject coupled with the very negligible demand of the people, the regional publishers are not providing soft copies of their books to the printly disabled people. The condition of the print disabled law student and faculty becomes worse if they are studying and teaching law in vernacular languages. Though judgments and scholarly articles are available in some online sites still, text books on regional laws are not available in soft copies. So, they have to spend much of their time and energy for getting those books in accessible form. Being a former law student and working in a law institution, the author has experienced such hurdles as well. In this chapter, the author has discussed how book famine affect the visually impaired faculties and students in the law schools and what are the coping strategies they adapt for overcoming their barriers and what are the steps to be taken for providing accessible inclusive legal education to the visually impaired students and faculties by various stakeholders including publishers. The author has written this chapter based on his own experience as a former visually impaired student who has come from a poor family and current law teacher in a premier law school in India along with the shared experience of his fellow visually impaired students, faculties and advocate.