[banteg]

Adds a text version of all 112 comic pages, for screen-reader users and anyone else who wants it.

Data

Each page in content/comics.json gains:

• scene: one or two plain sentences on what the page shows.
• lines: every lettered line in reading order, as Speaker: text, in sentence case. A narration box is labelled with its narrator; scene-setting and omniscient narration is Caption. The other labels are Sign, Sound (meaningful sound effects only), Title, Logo, Credit, Legal and Ad.

That's 805 lines across the four issues. The JSON grows from about 37 KB to 95 KB.

Reader

• Scroll mode: every page has a collapsed "Page N as text" disclosure under it.
• Pages mode: one disclosure under the Previous/Next buttons follows the current page, so it stays open while you turn pages. It takes at most about a third of the screen and scrolls on its own.
• Screen readers: each page's zoom button has aria-describedby pointing at its text, so screen readers announce it.
• Plain HTML: the text is server-rendered <details>, so it works without JavaScript and is indexable. Reader pages grow from about 39 KB to 81–104 KB of HTML, mostly repeated text that compresses well.
• Keys: the reader's shortcut keys ignore a focused <summary>, so Space opens the text instead of turning the page.

How the text was made

Four agents transcribed one issue each from high-resolution crops of the pages, zooming into the full-size scans where the lettering was small.

It was then proofread two ways:

• Against the writer's scripts. Josh Blaylock's scripts turned up for issues 1–3 (from 2021–22, when the comic was still called PILLS), plus the plot for issue 4. They're earlier drafts, so the printed lettering wins on wording. The scripts settled who speaks where the art was unclear: narration boxes, off-panel voices, balloons without tails.
• A separate page-by-page art audit. Every claim it made was re-checked against the scans. About a third were rejected, for example two miscounted letters and a mislabelled speaker that the script contradicted.

Judgement calls worth a look:

• Names follow the comic. A character gets a name once the comic establishes it, otherwise a role ("Vendor", "Hulking crewmate"). The scripts name some of them ("Salma" for the vendor, "Ren" for the armored man), but print never does, so those stay roles.
  • The masked woman in issue 1 stays "Masked woman" until she names herself as Techne on page 23, which keeps the reveal.
  • Bunny is male, as the scripts and the issue 4 lettering ("his part") say.
• Narrators by box colour: pink is Andre and lavender is Estonya. The scripts confirm both for issues 2 and 3, and issue 4 uses the same colours.
• Still inferred: the Community caption on issue 4 page 10, a colour that appears nowhere else. Issue 3 page 12's red captions are confirmed as Dominion's by the script.
• Lettering is kept as printed: "Eston'ya", "Y-Fu", "Y'ieldra", "Yield'ra", and printed typos such as "Assitance", "the the Markap cocktail" and "Dont' worry".

Lint, astro check and the build pass. Checked in the browser at 1280px and 375px:

• both modes;
• the text panel following page turns;
• Space on the toggle;
• the zoom buttons' aria-describedby targets;
• no console errors.

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