Making The Journal of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society accessible for all
Posted on 10th February, 2025
UCL Press is pleased to announce that the latest volume of The Journal of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society, volume 24 (2024), has published with alt text in the html and PDFs for all images.
The Journal of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society is a peer reviewed, open access journal, aiming to create a wider interest in the life and works of Sylvia Townsend Warner. Scholarly articles and pieces by well-known contemporary writers describing their appreciation of Warner are published alongside previously unpublished archival works by Warner, with each volume boasting an impressive list of figures which are mostly reproduced with permission from the Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland Archive at the Dorset History Centre, but occasionally seen for the first time through the journal.
In the current volume, readers can see candid pictures of Sylvia Townsend Warner, taken by her partner Valentine Ackland, alongside typescript notes of Warner’s manuscripts, and Warner’s handwritten correspondence to author Thomas Hardy.
The inclusion of alt text enables assistive technologies to read a description of these images aloud to the reader who cannot see them. This means the journal will be able to reach a wider audience and ensures equal access for all. First piloted in a Research For All article, this marks the first full volume of a UCL Press publication to publish with alt-text.
The current volume of The Journal of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society also features the Society’s 2023 biennial lecture, ‘‘The True Voice of the Heart’: Capture and Evasiveness in Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Life and Work’. The Sylvia Townsend Warner Lecture series is a biennial event run by the journal and supported by UCL Press. The series offers the opportunity to hear from acclaimed writers whose work touches on Warner’s life and works. The 2023 lecture was delivered by Claire Harman, who is an award-winning writer and critic known for her pioneering work on Sylvia Townsend Warner.
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