[bksvol-discuss] Re: Sighted volunteers (follow up to Cindy's post)
- From: Cindy Rosenthal <grandcyn77@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 21:56:30 -0700
Thank you for that post, Alisa. So I can concentrate on proofing but
should continue to do image descriptions for textbooks as I have a few
moments here and there?
And the new description should go in the space marked for it and not
alongside text, as alternate text? Should I add a new description if
there is already one as Alternate text lave it alone?
Cindy
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Alisa Moore <alisam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all. Responding to Cindy’s post here…we do have other sighted volunteers
> beyond the discussion group. Please note that we have about 400 active
> volunteers who are scanning and proofreading, and only a small handful are
> active on the discussion list. So we can (and do) put out the call to all
> of our volunteers on and beyond the list when needed, and always seek to
> recruit new volunteers, sighted and not.
>
>
>
> Most of our image description volunteers are sighted, because they need to
> be able to see the image to describe it (we also have a few blind volunteers
> who help us “QA” the descriptions and provide us with technical assistance
> and support). That said, image description work is not a priority over
> proofing in general. I was speaking specifically about the image
> description work in text books taking priority over non-text books due to
> our funding specifications from the federal government. (BTW, to all of you
> who helped on that work this fiscal year, we met our goal of having 15,000+
> images described in text books and available to our student members, so
> congratulations and thank you!).
>
>
>
> Kindly,
>
>
>
> Alisa K. Moore
>
> Volunteer Program Manager
>
> Benetech
>
> www.bookshare.org
>
> 650-352-0087
>
>
>
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