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Hm.
What's, like, the best medium for one person to… …convey a long story in a way that people will find accessible enough to engage with?
I want to tell stories! But I want to tell them in a way where the barrier to entry won't feel too high for people!
Anywhere you can host a PDF is usually good enough for me. I would look into what other people use for e-readers, too.
Oh, I more meant in the sense of writing vs. webcomics vs. visual novels vs.… …so on!
If I were to do things in written form, I'd probably publish both directly onto a webpage and in PDF form?
It's very context dependent, then, each medium has strengths and weakenesses in terms of accessibility. The world is flawed and you will always be lacking for a perfect solution. I would recommend approaching a medium you are comfortable with and taking advantage of the accessibility options you can.
If you mean more generally, finding a host that supports RSS is great, but that requires some self-educating because it's not standardized and needs to be configured. Ideally in a way that lets RSS readers view the entire continuous work.
This is probably not the answer you are looking for but honestly the best way to make any media accessible is to make it accessible in multiple forms (i.e. Novel, Audio Book, Graphic novel adaptation etc.) The more different ways you release something the more accessible it will be, (With the understanding that not every story translates to every medium and it's not feasible to make it for every medium) but typically any long form text medium should at least be paired with an audio equivalent to start.
That's definitely good advice for if I end up getting enough of an audience to make that, like. Feasible?
Which, like, for writing → audiobook or music → a written form, isn't a super high threshold, I don't think!
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But yeah, having an audio book version of any text based media is very good for being able to bring that media to folks with visual or reading impairments. It's definitely a lot more work but it does Make the book easier to digest for a lot of folks.
I feel like people tend to follow comics more. Take this with a grain of salt though
