[bksvol-discuss] Re: Knitting books
- From: Valerie Maples <vlmaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:07:44 -0800 (PST)
I will start commenting in short synopses. Right now I usually say either
"Picture descriptions present" or "Picture descriptions on picture only pages"
or something like that. My bad is that they were in the long synopses.
Thanks for trying to pass it on, Mayrie!
Valerie
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----- Original Message ----
> From: Mayrie ReNae <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Fri, February 10, 2012 6:24:28 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Knitting books
>
> Hi Valerie,
>
> No worries. I'll let folks know to search both synopses. I'm not sure how
> it's exactly being done, but thanks for saying what you've been doing. We
> can work with this, I think.
> But one standard place would be good to have. I thought short synopsis was
> preferred.
> Mayrie
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Valerie Maples
> Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 11:37 AM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Knitting books
>
> 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:
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>
>
>
> ----- 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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