[bksvol-discuss] Re: Knitting books
- From: Valerie Maples <vlmaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:37:02 -0800 (PST)
Well, drat! I have been putting mine in the long synopses! Ugh! So, any of
ours can be replaced for being in the wrong synopses. Oh, well, at least I
know
now so I can change. Wish there was an easy way to change all of them...
Valerie
Keep up with Nichole's recovery:
http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/nicholemaples
----- Original Message ----
> From: Tracy Carcione <carcione@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Fri, February 10, 2012 12:40:21 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Knitting books
>
> Thanks. That's good to know.
> Tracy
>
>
> > Hi Tracy & Jamie;
> >
> > Mayrie just advised me on this --
> >
> > And finally, if you provide image descriptions, you're offering something
> > that publishers currently don't, and should note this in the short
> > synopsis
> > of the form when uploading your book. Bookshare currently keeps both
> > scanned and publisher quality books if they are the same book if the
> > scanned copy contains image descriptions.
> >
> > hope this helps!
> >
> > Vivian
> >
> >
> >
> > At 01:13 PM 2/10/2012 -0500, you wrote:
> >>I agree. And, if someone like Jamie has sweated blood to make the images
> >>accessible, it would be a shame to replace her book with a PQ book that
> >> is
> >>actually inferior because of the inaccessible images.
> >>Tracy
> >>
> >> > Hi Tracy and Jamie,
> >> >
> >> > I think this issue is very important to the accessibility of PQ books
> >> in
> >> > general. If a book is provided to Bookshare by the author or
> >> publisher,
> >> > and
> >> > we are not allowed to touch it, but it does not contain the very
> >> > information
> >> > that would make the book accessible to Bookshare members, who do pay
> >> for
> >> > the
> >> > privilege of reading the book (though not a lot), is that book truly
> >> > accessible? Can Bookshare sign contracts for accessible books and
> >> > consider
> >> > those contracts met if the books provided do not contain accessible
> >> > information, including graphs, tables, charts, and images crucial to
> >> > understanding the book?
> >> >
> >> > My thought about such knitting books is "Why bother? I can get that
> >> much
> >> > of
> >> > the book anywhere!"
> >> >
> >> > This also applies to Sue's family tree, and to PQ textbooks with
> >> crucial
> >> > missing pieces. And we have been asked by Bookshare to create quality
> >> > reports--but how does one go about sending a quality report for each
> >> of
> >> > these books? They are many! We may need another volunteer segment to
> >> > complete this task. And, having found them, what can be done?
> >> >
> >> > Sandi
> >> >
> >> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> > From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> > To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> > Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 7:36 AM
> >> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Knitting books
> >> >
> >> >
> >
>
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