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My former student (now Asst. Prof.) is Blind. He did all the ‘content’ easily-learned to program in Python & R, did research, analzyed data, wrote papers. But, when it comes to formatting & submitting MSs for submission to journals, he hit a brick wall.
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I’ve happily done it for him in the past but he’s had enough. In his words:
“The website isn’t accessible. In the past, I’ve asked you for help with this, but I really think the burden should be laid on the journals themselves."
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“The website isn’t accessible. In the past, I’ve asked you for help with this, but I really think the burden should be laid on the journals themselves."
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"I think it’s a bad precedent for blind academics to have to rely on collaborators to help submitting articles.”
Yesterday, he emailed the publisher & explained requiring a Word document imposed accessibility issues & asked if he could submit in LaTeX.
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Yesterday, he emailed the publisher & explained requiring a Word document imposed accessibility issues & asked if he could submit in LaTeX.
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They wrote back with a one-liner:
“Only Word files are accepted. Sorry.” This, despite the fact that he’d related the rule to issues with accessibility. #DisabledAndSTEM
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“Only Word files are accepted. Sorry.” This, despite the fact that he’d related the rule to issues with accessibility. #DisabledAndSTEM
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My colleague’s final comment, and I agree:
"It shouldn’t be the case that collaborating with a blind person requires a greater time investment than collaborating with sighted people."
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"It shouldn’t be the case that collaborating with a blind person requires a greater time investment than collaborating with sighted people."
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