The transnational Movement for a Free Academia have recently launched #theGothenburgManifesto to call for an academic system built on an ethics of care, openness, trust and integrity.
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@MariaToft@ScienceCommunicator@academicchatter I would love to read the manifesto, but it is only available as a PDF that is nearly impossible to read on a mobile device. Maybe add a more accessible format for those of us with less than perfect vision?
@ScienceCommunicator@MariaToft@academicchatter My vision is good enough that I can read 12 pt type with my reading glasses on much faster than listening to text to speech, and my comprehension is better with reading than listening. Unfortunately, with the pre-formatted PDF, if I zoom to 12-pt, I have to pan back and forth on every line.
As for text-to-speech, I tried that. For some reason, the iOS screen reader says “no speakable content could be found on the screen” when I open the PDF. I did finally succeed in opening it Acrobat and extracting the text so I could read it.
I did that, and the PDF is missing title and image captions. Also, the language is set to da-DK (danish-Denmark), instead of en-US or en-UK, which is the language it appears to be written in. Maybe that’s the issue with the “no speakable content found error”? Other PDFs read just fine.