Presenter: Don Winiecki

Date: Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Description: Unit 1 of the Guidelines & Standards for Tactile Graphics (GSTG) is “Criteria for Including a Tactile Graphic“. The main feature of Unit 1 is a flowchart/decision-tree. Flowcharts are very helpful, but successful use of a flowchart often depends on a bit of nuanced knowledge.

For example, the first decision point is, “Is the information a repeat of facts in the text?”

But what does this really mean? — “…repeat of facts…” does not help us to identify which facts (or other details) are essential for the reader to acquire. This means that the transcriber/tactilist might have to do some homework to actually answer this question.

Some illustrations of “yes” and “no” examples at this and other decision points in the flowchart, and added detail that justifies such decisions will be provided in this webinar, so you can focus your TG work on things the learner really needs!