This Directive concerns persons who are blind, persons who have a visual impairment which cannot be improved so as to give them visual function substantially equivalent to that of a person who has no such impairment, persons who have a perceptual or reading disability, including dyslexia or any other learning disability preventing them from reading printed works to substantially the same degree as persons without such disability, and persons who are unable, due to a physical disability, to hold or manipulate a book or to focus or move the eyes to the extent that would be normally acceptable for reading, insofar as, as a result of such impairments or disabilities, those persons are unable to read printed works to substantially the same degree as persons without such impairments or disabilities.
Baineann an Treoir seo le daoine dalla, daoine atá faoi mhallachar amhairc nach féidir a fheabhsú sa chaoi is go mbeidh feidhm amhairc acu atá coibhéiseach go substaintiúil le feidhm amhairc duine nach bhfuil an mallachar sin orthu, daoine atá faoi mhíchumas aireachtála agus léitheoireachta, lena n-áirítear disléicse nó aon mhíchumas foghlama eile, lena gcuirtear cosc orthu saothair chlóite a léamh go dtí an leibhéal céanna, go substaintiúil, le daoine nach bhfuil faoin míchumas sin, agus daoine nach bhfuil ábalta, mar thoradh ar mhíchumas coirp, breith ar leabhar nó leabhar a láimhseáil, nó nach bhfuil ábalta a súile a fhócasú nó a bhogadh a mhéid a bheadh inghlactha de ghnáth don léitheoireacht, a mhéid nach bhfuil na daoine sin ábalta, mar thoradh ar mhallachair nó ar mhíchumais den chineál sin, saothair chlóite a léamh go dtí an leibhéal céanna go substaintiúil le daoine nach bhfuil mallachair ná míchumais den sórt sin orthu.