VIDBE-Q Volume 69 Issue 1
The inclusion of links also aids navigation. This will make tables of contents
more useful and make it easier to access information such as footnotes and
endnotes. Also, a transcriber could link to content referenced earlier in the
transcription, such as a specific map or chart relevant to and referenced by the
current material.
Finally, the inclusion of tactile graphics will make it easier for dynamic
multiline displays like the Monarch to display both braille and tactile graphics,
while also improving production using embossers that support both. Since alt text
is a requirement of eBraille, it will also mean that more information is available for
the user, even if the tactile graphic is not being produced on the hardware they are
using to read the braille. For example, if the user is reading an eBraille file on their
single line braille display, they will instead see the alt text for the graphic, where
currently they would only see blank space. This makes it easier for them both to
know not only which tactile graphic to grab out of their stack, but also to have a
description to prepare them to better understand that graphic.
These three changes will not drastically change the production of braille by
transcribers, either. Currently, transcribers are already identifying content as
headings, lists, paragraphs, etc. but that information is being thrown out when they
save as the current file type. The only change to their current workflow will be the
need to identify links and insert tactile graphics. The main change will be in the
