Introduction

I want my comics to be accessible not only visually, but also tactile and acoustic to be read via screen-reader and text-to-speech or braille display. I need a transcription into pure text. To make decisions while transcribing I need to know my objective. My first goal is accessibility. A second goal is to make text search possible and have googleable content. A third goal is to get to know my comic on a deeper level. Making decisions about how to transcribe makes me more aware of its visual language, its storytelling and the shifts of perspective. Transcribing is therefore also a tool to evolve as a comic artist.

Wanting to make make my comics accessible beyond the visual has a lot to do with my own audience. I wrote about this in my first blog post on screenreadable comics, which includes a list of all the comics already transcribed.

Accessibility and the analysis of one own work where the focus during the first workshop “Transcribing Screenreadable Comics”. Here I want to talk about two aspects: storytelling in the transcription and decisions with regard to depth of details. Continue reading →