The Centre for Braille Transcription and Publishing (CTEB) is a Toulouse-based association recognized for public benefit and sponsored by writer Bernard Minier. As an adaptation center, specialized publisher of tactile works, braille printer and online bookstore, the association has been working for 37 years to defend access to books and culture for French-speaking people with visual impairments by enabling the adaptation of current literary works into braille. Reading is crucial for learning, autonomy and inclusion for everyone. There is no equal opportunity without access to books. And in France, publishing adapted for disabilities, though relevant and modern, remains without any aid and without recognition of its crucial societal role. In France, only 6% of books are adapted for use by people with visual impairments. 60% of blind people are unemployed. A braille book costs an average of 700€ to produce. Yet CTEB sells them at a loss at the standard book price, regardless of their number of volumes! Adapted publishing is not included in book support schemes. Despite the development of audiobooks, printed books remain the only safeguard against illiteracy and the only tool for…