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From: Thompson, Rachel
Date: Fri, Aug 26 2016 1:37PM
Subject: Issuu?
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Hi, all.
Are any of you using Issuu<https://issuu.com/> or a similar service for web publication of materials designed for print? We have a college that produces newsletters for several of its departments and they are considering Issuu to embed newsletters in their websites. It doesn't appear to be accessible and their forum doesn't have much discussion at all about making content accessible.
Suggestions?
Thanks,
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
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From: Lovely, Brian (CONT)
Date: Fri, Aug 26 2016 1:55PM
Subject: Re: Issuu?
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Rachel, I Googled "issuu accessibility" and the results were not very promising regarding Issuu supporting accessibility. That's just a 2-second quick Google-check, but where there's smoke...
From: Thompson, Rachel
Date: Fri, Aug 26 2016 2:09PM
Subject: Re: Issuu?
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Brian,
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?!?!)!
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 ADDRESS REMOVED = | http://accessibility.ua.edu
From: Whitney Quesenbery
Date: Mon, Aug 29 2016 7:17AM
Subject: Re: Issuu?
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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 ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> Brian,
>
> 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?!?!)!
>
> 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 ADDRESS REMOVED = | http://accessibility.ua.edu
>
>
>
>
>