[Athen] Chemistry image description

[Paul Chapin]

Aren’t they already explained in the text? I haven’t read the text closely but our experience is that most images/graphics in textbooks merely replicate the text. While it’s good to have multiple formats for content, it doesn’t make much sense to have the original author make a graphic representation of his text and then for you to try to convert it back to text.

Paul Chapin
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Amherst College
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From: athen-list <athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu<mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu>> on behalf of "Lane, Lori" <lorilane at illinois.edu<mailto:lorilane at illinois.edu>>
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Date: Wednesday, March 30, 2016 at 4:20 PM
To: Access Technology Higher Education Network <athen-list at u.washington.edu<mailto:athen-list at u.washington.edu>>
Subject: Re: [Athen] Chemistry image description

Our colleague from the Department of Chemistry utilizes HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript to convey information in complex molecules as in the first example. This can be utilized by mouse, touch, keyboard, and screen readers. If you want more information about his work, I will need to ask my colleague for permission before I give you his contact information.

Lori

From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Jiatyan Chen
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2016 2:56 PM
To: Access Technology Higher Education Network <athen-list at u.washington.edu<mailto:athen-list at u.washington.edu>>
Subject: [Athen] Chemistry image description

Hi listers,

How would one describe complicated molecules and interactions?  Examples:

https://chemistry.princeton.edu/faculty/macmillan<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__chemistry.princeton.edu_faculty_macmillan&d=BQMFAg&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=yLNhwiX8iZacT6vVxox7Z_NGnpPZIttYTawwWKe49W8&m=DDljZCf-y3aCgXA5tQx_WhQ9C0Rawq4FqbTP91Riz2M&s=7L7NPqEva8EsMdlrBDZnXew370ZyYesQ79wkSLNVwoU&e=>

https://chemistry.princeton.edu/news/study-reveals-mechanism-behind-enzyme-tags-unneeded-dna<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__chemistry.princeton.edu_news_study-2Dreveals-2Dmechanism-2Dbehind-2Denzyme-2Dtags-2Dunneeded-2Ddna&d=BQMFAg&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=yLNhwiX8iZacT6vVxox7Z_NGnpPZIttYTawwWKe49W8&m=DDljZCf-y3aCgXA5tQx_WhQ9C0Rawq4FqbTP91Riz2M&s=fZRMD-MmZDtlgdCJQntV8GhZ9Gua35IeEs4ucY7rt5c&e=>

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Jiatyan Chen
Stanford Online Accessibility Program (SOAP) Manager
Stanford University

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