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
>
>
