What is an adapted digital book (ePub 3 format)?

More conventionally called in the industry "accessible digital book", the adapted digital book, as we will call it, was designed to facilitate reading for people experiencing a perceptual deficiency (visual or physical limitation or a learning disability which prevents a person to read ordinary printed matter). However, anyone can benefit from it. The primary goal is to improve reading comfort. For example, we can cite people in the process of becoming literate or those experiencing eye fatigue.

By means of various functionalities such as adjusting the font size, the contrast between the text and the color of the background, speech synthesis or even interactive navigation in the table of contents (to name just a few), adapted digital books offer a more inclusive, flexible and personalized reading experience.

Inclusion and equity: a pressing need

By offering adapted digital books as well as audio books (MP3), we offer content available to everyone, regardless of their physical or cognitive abilities. This promotes inclusion and ensures that no one is excluded from access to knowledge and culture, not to mention the feeling of empowerment of being able to access literary content independently and autonomously.

This initiative arises from a societal issue aimed at consolidating accessibility efforts and is directly linked to our cooperative values ​​of mutual aid, equality and fairness. Without forgetting that the mission of our network is to be a privileged partner of educational communities and to respond to the needs of the communities to ensure our educational mission.

How to locate these publications?

To identify books in ePUB 3 (adapted) or audio (MP3) format, Internet users can carry out searches using facets (or filters). As books do not all have the same accessibility options, these will be listed on the product page and will allow you to better understand the functions offered according to your needs.

Audiobooks (.MP3)

The audiobooks sold on our sites do not have a digital lock. These are .MP3 files that can be played by any program or application that supports audio files. We wish to offer another way of “reading” to people for whom the written text presents challenges.