I was probably venting a lot more anger about general lack-of-transcripts on the internet than the situation outlined in the link required. A fest with the purpose of putting the podfic first clearly outlined, and the fic all going up a month later, is probably fine - I doubt I would bother/remember to go back when the text was up, and I suspect a lot more people won't either, and I personally wouldn't go promoting that fest around, but there's plenty more fic in the sea.
If it became a generally accepted practice, though, or people started saying the podfic was it, there would never be a text version (as some people are speculating, and as question 2 proposed) then it would start to be a problem.
Re: allowing people to request a transcript: generally, with accessibility, not having the accommodation at all is worst; having an accommodation that requires people to ask for it is better; having something they don't have to ask for is best. I suspect most people who wouldn't bother coming back a month later wouldn't bother PMing, either, because having to ask for the special treatment every time gets old fast. But definitely better than nothing.
I'd say that if I wanted to do something like this... I would make them both freely downloadable but frame it such that it's clear the podfic is primary and the transcript was just that, a transcript, not 'the real fic'. One way might be to make the post all about the podfic and then link to a downloadable .txt or .rtf file of the transcript in a footnote at the bottom, particularly if it's formatted like an audio transcript rather than a fiction story. Or something like that. (That might even be a better way to frame it - withholding the text version is basically saying that you are resigned to the fact that everybody will pick text over audio if they have a choice. Whereas making them both available but making the audio a lot shinier is pointing out to people that audio can be their first choice.)
Also - and this is touching on question 6 - while audiobooks/podfic of prose fiction can be done amazingly and add a lot of art to an existing story, a work that is written primarily to be performed as audio ought to be written differently than one intended to be text, ought to be written such that anybody just reading the written text will realize they're reading something that's not in its intended format, because a good audio text has different strengths than a written one.
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If it became a generally accepted practice, though, or people started saying the podfic was it, there would never be a text version (as some people are speculating, and as question 2 proposed) then it would start to be a problem.
Re: allowing people to request a transcript: generally, with accessibility, not having the accommodation at all is worst; having an accommodation that requires people to ask for it is better; having something they don't have to ask for is best. I suspect most people who wouldn't bother coming back a month later wouldn't bother PMing, either, because having to ask for the special treatment every time gets old fast. But definitely better than nothing.
I'd say that if I wanted to do something like this... I would make them both freely downloadable but frame it such that it's clear the podfic is primary and the transcript was just that, a transcript, not 'the real fic'. One way might be to make the post all about the podfic and then link to a downloadable .txt or .rtf file of the transcript in a footnote at the bottom, particularly if it's formatted like an audio transcript rather than a fiction story. Or something like that. (That might even be a better way to frame it - withholding the text version is basically saying that you are resigned to the fact that everybody will pick text over audio if they have a choice. Whereas making them both available but making the audio a lot shinier is pointing out to people that audio can be their first choice.)
Also - and this is touching on question 6 - while audiobooks/podfic of prose fiction can be done amazingly and add a lot of art to an existing story, a work that is written primarily to be performed as audio ought to be written differently than one intended to be text, ought to be written such that anybody just reading the written text will realize they're reading something that's not in its intended format, because a good audio text has different strengths than a written one.