I need your help! Blind/low vision accessibility issues with comic readers14707

Originally Posted by Blair1999
Let me check with my Wife on this... She might know some tricks to get a screen reader to work with those apps.

Originally Posted by xvipah
Maybe not current, but seems like it might be at least a little helpful?
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Originally Posted by Enelson

Thats actually very interesting. So that is a prime example of what I was mentioning, there is no real accessibility for comics. But actually what he says is 100% a blueprint for how it can be done

Originally Posted by xvipah
I don't know if you caught it, but there was a link in there for a place where the text was transcribed to allow for the readers to work with comic stories (some at least).

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Originally Posted by Enelson

Thats actually very interesting. So that is a prime example of what I was mentioning, there is no real accessibility for comics. But actually what he says is 100% a blueprint for how it can be done

Originally Posted by Enelson
Hello everyone-

Its been a while again since I posted on here again. Some of you may remmember my son's story, other's of you may be new- so just a quick synopsis again

From late November to January my 15 year old son lost most of his central vision. He is now legally blind and off the eye charts. His vision is now measured at "counting fingers" at one foot. This was due to an EXTREMELY rare mitochondrial disease called leber's Hereditary Optic Neuropathy.

He has been coping and making the neccesary adaptations such as using audio and has begun cane training and using braille. All in all he has been in high spirits.

One of the most devastating parts of this- maybe even more for me than him- is that he was the one of my 3 boys that rully shared this hobby with me. We have adapted somewhat to collecting slabs- but really he was always a reader and misses reading my comics.

For a while as the vision was deteriorating he could use magnification and zoom to read on Marvel Unlimited, DC, Kindle, comixology etc. Now he can not read any of the text. He can howeever see pictures when they are enlarged/zoomed.

We have discovered what appears to be an accessibility issue. If you want to watch a movie or tv show you can get Audio Description. If you want to read a book, you can get audio, if you want to read your screen- you can use voiceover/JAWS. Apparently if you want something to read the comic word bubbles on any of these apps- you can go kick rocks. I have contacted Marvel and they said they are not required to make comics accessible.

So what I was wondering if some of you might be able to do is send an email(- or 2?) and simply ask any of these companies why they have not made any of these apps compatible with screen readers for the low/visually impaired. I don't know if this can do anything, but I feel its worth a shot.

We seem to live in a society today in which that when enough people bithch about something, it often gets done.

I don't have a specific email address for any of these companies- so I have been annoying and just sending emails to any one that I think might read them,

There is definitely a gap in accessibility in regards to these apps working with screen readers. To a certain extent, I don't even think it is malicios, I just don't know how many people have brought it to their attention.

So if anyone wants to take a few minutes to send an email to Amazon, Apple, Marvel, DC, Image etc. and explain that there are accessibility issues for the blind, maybe we can get something changed

Thanks all

...and thanks again for rallying to help me get that Daredevil a while back!