Omission of Illustrations

[Michelle Barney]

As we are working through the Atlas section of the Americans Textbook, we are finding that these maps are illustrating broad sections with dense features that involve various cities, land elevations and water depths, etc… In addition, we searched the book in an effort to find any cross-references that would lead us to any exercises regarding these features, but none were found. What we did find was in each GEOGRAPHY SKILLBUILDER section, a map and/or illustrations are already provided for that subject matter in which we are providing tactile pages for those sections per the guidelines for tactile graphics.

With that said, what I am asking is… due to the fact that there is no cross-reference pointing the student to the atlas, is this needed for the braille transcription?

I am basing this question from Tactile Graphics Standards and Guidelines:
5.4.2 Omission of Illustrations. When illustrations are unrelated to the text or when sufficient information in the illustration is given in its caption or in the narrative body of the text, the illustration should be omitted and not described. See also References (GSTG 2.1, 2.5, 2.6, 2.8).

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[Donald Winiecki]

Thank you for your question Michelle!

You have already found the most relevant guidelines in GSTG.

Beyond that, this would normally be an agency decision as most of the time maps are instrumental in showing the student where things occurred and/or happened, or simply where things are in the world as related to instructional content in a book.

When it comes to implementing any agency decisions, even when there are many items to be included, we would key the items and list them in their respective position on the maps themselves. See GSTG 5.7 through 5.9 for more specifics about formatting keys.

Hope this helps!

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