Hello The link in my post should give some more information. Basically Google Books is a project by Google to digitise books and make them freely available on the web. Some books only allow partial viewing. The problem in the pasts is that the pages are image scans rather than OCR scanned. However screen reader users are supposed to be able to get at the OCR version now. However I have not managed this yet.
If you type Google Books into the Google search field a link to the service should come up. Regards David Griffith -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Crews Sent: Thursday, 13 December 2007 00:55 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Google Books Hello David, What is Google Books? Thanks, Steve -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Griffith Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 5:23 PM To: [email protected]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Blind-Computing] Google Books Dear List I have just read an article on an attempt to make Google Books accessible to Jaws. Allegedly there is a "hidden" link available to Jaws users which will enable them to access an OCR text version of the images of pages normally inaccessible to us. This OCR link is apparently only available when you put Google Books into full view mode. There is a link for this which I found by using Control F and searching for full. This link did not appear in Links list or as a button but worked when I pressed enter on it. However I could not find a hidden OCR link. Has anybody else been able to find this and make it work? The article I was reading was at http://blind-geek-zone.blogspot.com/2007/07/first-step-in-adding-accessibili ty-to.html Regards David Griffith Visit the Blind Computing List home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following form in order to contact the management team http://www.jaws-users.com/BlindComputing.php If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit the Blind Computing List home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following form in order to contact the management team http://www.jaws-users.com/BlindComputing.php If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit the Blind Computing List home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following form in order to contact the management team http://www.jaws-users.com/BlindComputing.php If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
