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ALT A poster featuring a comics page of mine and a lot of text regarding my bio.
ALT Description of Sam’s sketchnotes from Chancey Fleet’s “Call to Action” closing keynote! This is a drawing made of words and a few pictures. It’s about 8.5 inches high and 11 inches long. It’s drawn with black markers on white paper and there are some light blue and yellow highlight colours. In the top left corner there is a drawing of Chancey Fleet’s face next to a sign that asks her question: “How is this work necessary and valuable enough to compel our resources?” The page features some word bubbles that offer her reflections on that question, along with another question that she says members of this community should be prepared to answer: “Why do blind people need comics?” The word bubbles are surrounded by a few lines, colours, shapes and simple pictures of people that (I hope up) give some visual relief to an image that is mostly made of words. At the bottom of the page are some of Chancey Fleet’s closing messages, including: “Spread the word!” And “We need each other!”
ALT Event flyer: SFSU Program in Visual Impairments, Comic Studies, Longmore Institute on Disability present: Adapting Comics for Blind & Low Vision Readers. 1 day virtual symposium! Aug. 12, 9am-4pm PT. 4 panels with experts in access, blindness, & comics explore creative/technological approaches to open this historically visual medium to blind & low vision readers. How can a visual medium be made accessible? (drawing of an eye). Audio description (drawing of an ear with soundwaves), tactile approaches (drawing of a hand exploring tactile media), emerging technologies (drawing of a finger activating a touch screen and person wearing a headset), & depictions of blindness in comics (drawing of daredevil against a background of concentric circles). What new possibilities might emerge! AD/ASL/CART provided. For other requests: [email protected]. Registration: https://tinyurl.com/AdaptingComics. Supported by the College of Liberal & Creative Arts. Presenting sponsor: Amazon
