Core Issues for Starting a New Online Publication
This comes out of thinking and discussion with Blackbird staff and other digital publishing colleagues over the course of a number of years. This is an excerpt from working distillation from a longer 2020 draft, and is in progress. Address ADA compliance not just to meet institutional checkboxes, but with affected communities of readers. Respect […]
Italics in Closed Captions
Closed captions of recent readings we published contained book titles and/or had other content that was italicized in print. Having moved on our initial questions on captioning poetry, we use published print text as our guide when creating closed captions for texts read at public in-person or Zoom events. We have decided to indicate, for […]
Working Questions for Fall 2020
HTML<strike> tag is deprecated. Should we use <s> or CSS text decoration for poems that employ struck-through text as part of their visual presentation? How does deprecated code (like <strike>) affect the way we need to address archival texts? We have at least one John Allman story that had struck-through text as part of its […]