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From: Alan Zaitchik
Date: Dec 12, 2022 6:01PM

Glad to look at the pdf if you can make it available to me.
Alan

> On Dec 9, 2022, at 12:58, <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>