"Reading means the world to me and I can’t imagine what it would be like, to be denied this pleasure,” said children’s laureate Jacqueline Wilson. She is urging fellow writers to make their work more accessible to visually impaired persons.

Jacqueline Wilson is leading an initiative by the Royal National institute of the Blind to make books available in Braille, audio and large print. Authors are being urged to amend their contracts with the publishers to make this possible. RNIB wants the publishers to produce all the work in alternative format at the same time as the standard print.

According to Jacqueline, ‘blind and partially sighted people should enjoy the same rich library of books as everybody else.’

It is estimated that about three million people in the U.K have sight problem and dyslexia which means that they cannot read or they have to struggle to read-as most of the books are not available in audio, Braille or large print.

The RNIB campaigns officer David Mann, said that the government should be investing money to fund the development of a pilot project to test new ways of making books available to people having visual impairment. Unfortunately the government support was only a meager sum of pounds 200,000 (Rupees 1.58 crores approximately) to fund this project.

Jacqueline, on the other hand, is working very passionately to support the cause. She is working with her fellow writers to get their books out to absolutely everyone who wants to read them.