Hi, Valerie, what you are describing sounds like an acrostic to me.
Could
you write a note to the reader explaining that what is being shown is
an
acrostic? I really don't know how you can work this out because when
I'm
reading a book using a Braille display, I wouldn't have a whole page in
front of me to make it obvious that what I'm reading is an acrostic.
Also, I
don't know how you would convey this in audio. This is a real poser. I
could
understand what you were doing if I had a hardcover book or pamphlet in
front of me and I could turn the pages. Sorry, but that's all I know.
I'm
sure there will be others more savvy than I am who can advise you. Good
luck
and best regards, Kim.
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] formatting question
Good morning!
I have a question. Doug and I are working on a children's book and it
relies
on some visual cues within some pages. On a couple of the pages it has
the
first letter of the word of each line separated by a space from the
rest of
its word so that when you look at the page vertically you see a
message. In
other words, there is an intentional space so that you get a message
when
you look at the word from top to bottom. Obviously a blind reader would
lose
this message and I am wondering how to best handle it. My immediate
thought
is to leave it intact, but after considerable thought, I am thinking
about
putting a bracketed message at the top of the page and simply making
the
first letter either or both bold or larger, but eliminating the space
so
that it reads as a word or plays as a word when using text to speech.
Feedback will be greatly appreciated so that I can modify it
appropriately
to submit to the collection.
Thanks!
Valerie
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