This Directive therefore aims to improve the availability of books, including e-books, journals, newspapers, magazines and other kinds of writing, notation, including sheet music, and other printed material, including in audio form, whether digital or analogue, online or offline, in formats that make those works and other subject matter accessible to those persons to substantially the same degree as to persons without such impairment or disability.
Dá bhrí sin, tá sé mar aidhm ag an Treoir seo feabhas a chur ar infhaighteacht leabhar, lena n-áirítear ríomhleabhair, irisleabhair, nuachtáin, irisí agus scríbhinní eile, nodaireachtaí, lena n-áirítear bileoga ceoil agus ábhair chlóite eile, lena n-áirítear ábhar i bhfoirm fuaime, cibé an ábhar digiteach nó analógach atá i gceist, ar líne nó as líne, i bhformáidí a thugann rochtain ar na saothair agus ar an ábhar eile sin do na daoine sin go dtí an leibhéal céanna, go substaintiúil, le daoine nach bhfuil faoi mhallachar nó faoi mhíchumas mar sin.