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From: aleland
Date: Dec 9, 2022 10:58AM

Hi there,

I'm a low-vision writer with a book about blindness coming out this summer
from a commercial press, and I want to make sure that all of the publicity
materials are accessible. I just got my first marketing PDF from my
publisher, and while I can read the text fine on Acrobat for Windows with
JAWS, it ignores the decorative images around the text, and when I look at
the PDF on my iphone with voiceover, it cuts off each line of the text and
generates auto alt text for the images. Can anyone help me figure out what
to say to my publisher to help ensure that all our materials are accessible?
They have a great design team who I think will be willing to adjust their
processes but even though I'm a screen-reader user I don't really know what
to tell them, as I'd like to say something more useful than "there is a
website called webaim that you should click on ;)"

Thanks much for any help anyone can offer!

All best,

Andrew

andrewleland.org