"[1] A print disability prevents a person from gaining information from printed material in the standard way, and requires them to utilize alternative methods to access that information.
[2] The term was coined by George Kerscher, a pioneer in digital talking books.
[3] DAISY is used by libraries as a means of making complex books accessible via audio.
[4] A conference organised by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Marrakesh, Morocco, in June 2013 adopted a special treaty called "A Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works by Visually Impaired Persons and Persons with Print Disabilities" (briefly Marrakesh VIP Treaty).
[5][6] The Marrakesh Treaty represents an important change in how law makers balance the demands of copyright owners against the interests of people with disabilities in particular, and a potential point of inflection in global copyright politics more generally.