Activist

[asterroc]

Gaddarned, I'm turning into an activist.

From: "zandperl"
To: ohno@ohnorobot.com
Subject: feature suggestion: full transcripts for accessibility

>I hope I'm not overlooking that you already have this, but I'd like to
>suggest a feature for Oh No Robot. My suggestion is to have the full
>transcripts available for each comic that has been transcribed, not just
>the start of the transcriptions as is currently available - see
>http://www.ohnorobot.com/archive.pl?comic=32&page=11 for an example of
>your current setup.
>
> My reason for requesting this is as an issue of accessibility. As I
> understand it, people with visual disabilities currently have no way to
> read webcomics, as readers do not combine OCR with text-to-speech. Should
> Oh No Robot provide full text transcriptions, all of your webcomics will
> become available to people with visual disabilities for the first time,
> allowing them a wider audience and greater recognition, not to mention
> lots of good karma. Oh No Robot would become famous in the disability
> community for taking this proactive stance to provide accessibility to all
> internet users, all while helping promote webcomics, and helping people.
>
> --zandperl

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To: zandperl@care2.com
Subject: Re: feature suggestion: full transcripts for accessibility
From: "Ryan North" ryan@qwantz.com

Hey Zandperl,

It is a good suggestion! We've already made it so that people on Keenspot
can download their transcriptions and include them on their site, which is a
very handy way for the vision-impared to experience the comic. It's been
intended for the archives to have "partial", "first line" and "entire
transcription" views for a while now, so your suggestion is a good one that
will be implemented in the near future!

Another option we're considering is having a page where you can type in the
URL and get the transcription - it would be handy to keep open in another
window when reading comics, and would let you have the current transcription
to a comic only a click away.

-Ryan
qwantz.com

Awesome. I do hope they do it.

Comments

[sammka.livejournal.com]

Ryan North is totally awesome!

Also, since his comic uses the same visual information each day, I imagine that it would be the most amenable to totally text-based enjoyment.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

I actually don't read his comic. I've looked at it a few times and it never really grabbed me. Oh well. If others love him, I'm glad to hear it. :)

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[zandperl.livejournal.com]

DELETE!

[blue102.livejournal.com]

You rock.

See you a week from Wednesday !!!