This year’s winners of the ABC International Excellence Award will be announced by WIPO Deputy Director General Sylvie Forbin during a ceremony on December 4, 2024 at the International Publishers Association Congress gala dinner in Guadalajara, Mexico. This is the second time that the ABC awards are being presented in Latin America.

This year’s wide range of nominations underline the commitment and dedication of publishers and organizations across the world to publishing and supporting accessible content for all readers. The jury were thrilled to review the innovative and inspiring work of so many fantastic nominees. The shortlisted finalists represent the highest quality in the field, and they are a testament to thoughtful, innovative, and inclusive publishing.

The finalists in the publisher category are:

  • Book Publishers Association of Alberta (Canada)
  • Children’s Fun Publishing Co., Ltd. (China)
  • Gerbera Ediciones (Argentina)

The shortlisted candidates in the initiative category are:

  • Lithuanian Audiosensory Library (Lithuania)
  • Round Table on Information Access for People with Print Disabilities (Australia and New Zealand)
  • UNICEF Helsinki (Finland)

ABC award nominees were judged on the criteria of outstanding leadership and achievements in improving the accessibility of e-books or other digital publications for persons who are blind, have low vision, are dyslexic or have mobility impairments that impact their ability to read the printed word. The finalists were selected by an expert jury composed of representatives of publishers, standards bodies and organizations representing persons with visual impairments, as well as accessibility experts.

The ABC International Excellence Award was previously presented at the London Book Fair between 2015 and 2020, at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2021, at the Guadalajara International Book Fair in 2022 and at the Sharjah Publishers Conference in the United Arab Emirates in 2023.

In 2023, the winners were Bokförlaget Hegas AB of Sweden, the Accessible Reading Materials Library, Chetana Charitable Trust of India, and the Kalimat Foundation of the United Arab Emirates.

Previous winners in the publisher category include Kogan Page and Constantine Editores (2022), Taylor & Francis Group (2021), Macmillan Learning (2020), EDITORIAL 5 (2019), Hachette Livre (2018), SAGE Publishing (2017), Elsevier (2016) and Cambridge University Press (2015).

Previous winners in the initiative category include Mr. Ashoka Bandula Weerawardhana of Sri Lanka and Dorina Nowill Foundation for the Blind – Brazil (2022), National Network for Equitable Library Service (NNELS) – Canada (2021), LIA Foundation – Italy (2020), ekitabu – Kenya (2019), Daisy Forum of India (2018), Tiflonexos – Argentina (2017), Action on Disability Rights and Development – Nepal (2016) and Young Power in Social Action – Bangladesh (2015).

Republished from here.