[bksvol-discuss] Re: Image Descriptions in Children's Books
- From: "EVAN REESE" <mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:23:20 -0400
Actually, Jamie, there are picture descriptions in the outsourced version of
No, David. I checked on this when you mentioned this book some while back.
They're pretty minimalist, though, and I got the impression that the writer of
the descriptions was not a native speaker of English. I don't have the book
anymore, but I can gget it again if you want examples.
Evan
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From: Chela Robles
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Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 4:40 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Image Descriptions in Children's Books
Jamie, no they didn't I didn't see any picture descriptions, sadly! I don't
think that outsourcers from Africa and such do that sort of thing but someone
can correct me, I remember reading books that were submitted by Digital Divide
or something like that. They do a reasonable job too. I'm sure they're not
reading this messages but thumbs up to them so far.
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On 7/29/2010 1:36 PM, Jamie Yates, CPhT wrote:
Scott, one of the first books I proofread as a new volunteer was called No,
David by David Shannon, where the pictures were highly important because the
words No David (which are about the only words in the book) just don't mean
anything without the pictures.
However, when I just checked, it was replaced by a scan done by Worth Trust.
So I hope they put in the picture descriptions equivalent to the ones I
worked so hard on a few years ago.
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