[Athen] Non-academic, literary accessibility

[Matthew Deeprose]

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Matt

From: athen-list <athen-list-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu> On Behalf Of Luke Kudryashov
Sent: 26 August 2022 17:38
To: Access Technology Higher Education Network <athen-list at u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: [Athen] Non-academic, literary accessibility

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Hi T.,

The Describing Visual Resources Toolkit<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdescribingvisualresources.org%2F&data=05%7C01%7CM.Deeprose%40soton.ac.uk%7Cedfdeb4328ad4f1de50908da878190d0%7C4a5378f929f44d3ebe89669d03ada9d8%7C0%7C0%7C637971287805726338%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=0GCNGG3O39SkFasOFPb3PIuI2dIRJCvBIDqAN%2F8rMnA%3D&reserved=0> might be useful, it has arts and humanities tailored info. It's primarily focused on academic publishing but a lot of it is more broadly applicable to non-academic contexts.

Luke

Luke


On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 3:54 PM Weissenberger, T M <todd-weissenberger at uiowa.edu<mailto:todd-weissenberger at uiowa.edu>> wrote:
Hi all,

A local small press reached out with some questions as they ramp up their ePub practices. Their books are not specifically intended as classroom texts, but they want to provide good ALT text with illustrations, charts/graphs, and the like.

My DS office colleague and I shared the usual ALT goodness, but I felt like there might be something more specific we could offer them as publishers of fiction, poetry, history, and general interest titles. Has anyone worked with accessibility at a more literary level?

Yes, I am an English major.

Cheers,
TMW

T. Matthew Weissenberger [he/him/his]
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IT Accessibility Coordinator
University of Iowa

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