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From: Whitney Quesenbery
Date: Aug 29, 2016 7:17AM

I last looked at Issu several years ago when we were thinking about moving
UXPA's magazine (now uxpamagazine.org) online.

None of the publishing tools like Issu were at all accessible. Most were
barely usable. They are "PDF page turners" with poor navigation and poor
display options. They were pushed (mostly) by companies that did print
pre-press as an easy way to put your magazine up for online reading,
without any easy way to print the whole thing or download it (they saw this
as a rights management plus).

We ended up building our own.

On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 4:09 PM Thompson, Rachel < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Brian,
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> I agree! I saw several univ sites letting folks know NOT to use Issuu.
> :-(. I am playing ³bad cop² too often these days, thanks to vendors who
> haven¹t caught up with the awesomeness that is accessibility (Can we say,
> ³Prezi²?!?!)!
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> Happy Friday!
> Rachel
>
> Dr. Rachel S. Thompson
> Director, Emerging Technology and Accessibility
> Center for Instructional Technology
> The University of Alabama
> 123 Russell Hall
> Box 870248
> Tuscaloosa, AL 35487
> Phone 205-348-0216
> <EMAIL REMOVED> | http://accessibility.ua.edu
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