[Athen] comic book conversions?

[Heidi Scher]

Thanks for your suggestion, Kamran!  I appreciate it!

Heidi

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Heidi Scher, M.S., CRC
Associate Director
Center for Educational Access
University of Arkansas
ARKU 209
Fayetteville, AR 72701
479.575.3104
479.575.7445 fax
479.575.3646 tdd
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On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 7:14 PM, Rasul, Kamran <krasul at columbiabasin.edu>
wrote:


> At my previous job in DC, I went into local libraries and asked volunteer

> readers for children programs if they would like to help us out by reading

> graphic novels to a recording device. We provided the digital recorder and

> book and met up each week or few days at the library to get the mp3 files

> off Dragon supported voice recorder and then deliver the files to the

> student requiring it. We compensated the reader for their time as a

> contract worker. So we had both the recordings and speech to text ready for

> future students.

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> Kamran Rasul, M.Ed

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> *From:* athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu] *On

> Behalf Of *Jane Berk

> *Sent:* Monday, January 22, 2018 3:29 PM

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> *Subject:* Re: [Athen] comic book conversions?

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> Hi Heidi,

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> I wish we had a better solution, too.  The ones we’ve done have had to

> basically be written out with a description of the graphics and then the

> text to accompany it.  Lots of work!  Hoping someone out there knows a

> better way!

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> Best,

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> *From:* athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu

> <athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu>] *On Behalf Of *Heidi

> Scher

> *Sent:* Monday, January 22, 2018 4:11 PM

> *To:* Access Technology Higher Education Network <

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> *Subject:* [Athen] comic book conversions?

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> Hello everyone!

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> I hope your Monday has been more productive than our has been. Seems to be

> the day for strange issues and computer gremlins!

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> We have a student who has requested that the graphic novels (i.e. comic

> books) be converted for her class. The course uses a textbook plus 5

> graphic novels. The student uses text-to-speech software (i.e. is not blind

> but does have a print-related disability).

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> Has anyone else had the request for graphic novels to be converted? How

> did you accomplish the task? These are obviously important course

> materials, but just not sure how to accomplish the task. (Hard to believe

> in 13+ years I've not dealt with this topic previously!)  OCR will be a

> mess to attempt.

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> Any suggestions would be appreciated!!

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> Kind regards,

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> Heidi

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> Heidi Scher, M.S., CRC

> Associate Director

> Center for Educational Access

> University of Arkansas

> ARKU 209

> Fayetteville, AR 72701

> 479.575.3104 <(479)%20575-3104>

> 479.575.7445 <(479)%20575-7445> fax

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