Tag Archives: accessibility

Lapses in Literacy: Cultural Accessibility in Graphic Health Communication

Garrison-Joyner, V. & Caravella, E. (2020) Lapses in literacy: cultural accessibility in graphic health communication, Technical Communication Quarterly, 29:3, iii-xxv, DOI: 10.1080/10572252.2020.1768295 ABSTRACT: This graphic meditation on issues of cultural relevance and accessibility in comic-based health communication texts presents the web of rhetorical considerations inherent in creating culturally accessible health communication texts. Applying recent technical communication theories related to social justice this… Read More »

Blind Readers and Comics: Reflecting on Comics’ Storytelling from a Different Perspective

Dittmar, J. F. (2019). Blind readers and comics: reflecting on comics’ storytelling from a different perspective. Comics Forum. Retrieved from https://comicsforum.org/2019/08/04/blind-readers-and-comics/ ABSTRACT: This paper discusses comics for the blind, based on the example of the tactile comic life by Philipp Meyer and Astérix par Touchtatis ! by Olivier Poncer. It looks into the potential and the restrictions of sequential pictorial… Read More »