There is supposed to be a list of episodes here to purchase, but none of the content is reading for me, I just see the navigation section and "powered by squarespace." Is that because there's an accessibility issue with rendering it to screenreaders, or is it not loading for anyone?
@pesh Thanks, that's what I was afraid of. I suspect he took pictures of some print materials because they were never stored electronically and he doesn't want to rely on technology too much. I sent him an email and suggested he get a scanner and OCR it. Hopefully he's able to do that!
@objectinspace It’s a bit low-res, but it looks like digital text rendered into an image rather than a scan of paper. I bet running it through OCR would yield pretty good results.
@pesh I don't understand why It's not getting picked up by the Chrome autoalt thing. If I could save the image it'd be easier to work with. I tried opening the URLs to the images from source but that did not work either! Bleh.
@pesh Okay I was able to download the jpeg and then I used the snipping tool to read the text. Well, some of the text. I don't think it got all of it. But that's a start! I still feel like he should be able to make this available as a docx or a pdf or something. Not great but it would be better than this!
@objectinspace Wow, my OCR program rejected it because it’s so big. Probably why Chrome couldn’t do it either. I can try splitting it up and running it through if you want.
@KaraLG84 Really, I did not realize squarespace was neutoriously bad for accessibility. That is unfortunate. I get the sense that he is trying to do a "set it and forget it" thing so he doesn't have to maintain. Maybe he'd be better off on wordpress or something? But I don't think a whole sitewide migration is something he'd be interested in, even if it would put him in a better place for his business.
@blindbat84 A sighted person told me that they do see content. I went and viewed source on the page but did not see anything that looked like relevent text. That leads me to suspect it's an image of text. I sent the guy an email, hopefully my assumption is not totally off-base or I will come off like a crazy person LOL.
@blindbat84 I mean, they are probably available on torrents or something, some are already on the web archive. But I would still rather pay again for such excellent work.
@blindbat84 I'm not sure, that's the problem! LOL. The part I need is the catalog, because I don't remember which topics were covered in which episodes. I did grab one of the random ones off the internet archive though and they are as good as I remember.
@blindbat84 The segment in particualr that sent me on this journey was the one where they outline how politics are supposed to work. Like tehy talk about how to form a campaign and why messaging is so important and then how you are pressured to compromise once you get there. Such good stuff.
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