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Academia & Publishing Image Alt Text: How to Make Your Scientific Publication More Accessible Alt text is a fundamental tool for ensuring the accessibility of digital publications. But what should your alt text look like in order to make sure it is really useful to your audience? And how do you actually provide an alt text for images used in your publication? Here are some quick tips to help you out.
Academia & Publishing How De Gruyter Is Making Its eBooks More Accessible Not everyone experiences reading the same way. To ensure that people with visual impairments can access the same information as everybody else, we set up a dedicated working group at De Gruyter to improve the accessibility of our content. We spoke to three of its members about the challenges and achievements of the past year.
Politics & Society Neuropolitics: How Looking Inside Our Brains Can Help Save Democracy What happens when people feel unheard and vote for a demagogue? What Plato attributed to the concept of ‘Thymos’ 2,400 years ago, today finds a tangible connection in the brain. The ramifications for democratic thought are profound.
Arts & Humanities How ‘Listening’ to Archaeological Sites Could Shed Light on the Past Understanding the way in which sounds move through archaeological sites could offer insights into how ancient societies may have organized themselves. The results of field studies applying ‘psychoacoustic’ techniques at an ancient Greek sanctuary show the potential of this approach.
Arts & Humanities ‘Forced Diversity’ In Movies Is Not a Thing – But Here’s Why Some People Are So Scared of It
