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A guide to switching your Audiobook App to move away from Google and support smaller and more ethical businesses (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This is the first version of this guide, so please share any feedback, and I'll include it in the next version!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Looks like you put some consideration into this, so I'm a little disappointed that you are sharing text as an image format, without alt text.

Please take this as constructive criticism, I know graphics are the easiest way for many people to share something like this, but particularly for non-visual media like audio books it may be worth your while to address the visually disabled as well 🙂

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If someone wants to transcribe these guides, then I am more than happy to include them!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Friend, as I understand the situation you wrote the guides already, then crunched them into image files. If you have the source text, why expect others to put in the work of transcribing them? 🤷

If those aren't your original guides I apologise for my misunderstanding, of course.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The first phrase (at the top) talks about being part of a series, rather than the purpose of the doc. That should go at the end.
the image in the middle looks like it's describing use cases, but the cases and significance to the reader aren't clear. What is DRM? What is profit share? What is a credit system? Why should the reader care?
why are library apps in a rectangle, but the others in circles?
"Environmental" has an icon, but it doesn't seem to be used anywhere.
would the bubbles with icons look better if they were left justified?
the "need help choosing" block is the most understandable: it lists interests and an appropriate suggestion.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Thanks for this. I spend so much time on the content from guide to guide that I forget how someone reading it for the first time might interpret it.

Will update the guide and post it to [email protected]