Question 5939 — people with disabilities

Summary

Ms. Nadia Essayan draws the attention of the Minister of National Education to the persistent difficulties in accessing school books experienced by blind, partially or severely visually impaired students. In recent years, the regulations governing the disability exception have evolved significantly. In particular, the possibility for approved organizations to access publishers' source files marked a remarkable advance. The joint efforts of Ministry of Culture and Communication as well as publishers to make publishing natively accessible go in the right direction and should make it possible, at least in the long term, to facilitate access to general literature. However, given the increasing complexity of school works (paper or digital version), their edition will probably never be natively accessible and adaptation work is and will remain necessary for them. transcribe in Braille, large print or audio version. While, thanks to the support of public authorities, most children have all their school textbooks available free of charge from the first day of school, the situation is different for students who are unable to read and particularly blind or severely visually impaired children. Adapted versions are only available after several months, at the cost of incredible efforts of craftsmen of adaptation who are sorely lacking in resources and support. In fact, less than 5% of the works published each year in France end up being, one day, accessible. In the field of school books, more particularly, the shortage reflects indigence. This constitutes discrimination in access to education for young people with disabilities. It seems paradoxical that in the country of human rights which is also that of Louis Braille, the use and teaching of Braille are becoming less and less widespread, which was recently criticized by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Also, she asks him what measures he intends to take with regard to: the implementation of the recommendations incumbent on the Ministry of National Education from the report “Structures having an activity of adapting works for the benefit of people in disability situation”; the appointment of a project manager so that the Ministry of National Education is proactive on this subject, whose missions could be to ensure the implementation and monitoring of the report's recommendations and to participate in interministerial coordination and monitoring of the accessibility of digital documents; all measures allowing the rise of the adapted publishing sector so that Disabled children who are unable to read have the school books they need from the start of the school year.

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