Hi David,
I am not sure but what a person must be signed in to a Google account
to find the links. I haven't had time to research that far.
God bless,
Mark
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----- Original Message -----
From: "David Griffith" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 9:45 AM
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Accessible Google Books?
Interesting .
This sounds like it is a development from the OCR accessibility initiative
I mentioned.
Do you know if the links you used are visible to sighted users?
The previous initiative I think relied on making these links invisible and
only usable by screen reader users.
As you say the problem is that this feature, whilst excellent, only appears
to be available on a small number of books.
David Griffith
-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Sunday, 13 December 2009 23:50
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Accessible Google Books?
Hi
I have been practicing with Google Books today. I thought I would
report my findings so far. First I search for a fraise,, next I press enter
on the link that indicates that the entire book is available. After that
there is a link that says plain text. Once a person presses enter on this
the page loads with the book in plain text. Yes! It is wonderful. Totally
screen reader friendly. Now, if I can only get it to work on the Google book
that I actually need, I will have it made.
God bless,
Mark
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----- Original Message -----
From: "David Griffith" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2009 3:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Accessible Google Books?
Microsoft document Image scanning is an option for virtual scan, but as I
say Kurzweil is , in my experience, pretty hopeless with google Books and
sadly the Microsoft option is only a little better.
I think Google books is a genuinely hard access nut to crack. I am not sure
that if you try printing the whole web page whether anything will come out
which you can physically scan. You could give this a try though.
Regards
David Griffith
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark
Sent: Sunday, 13 December 2009 19:16
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Accessible Google Books?
Hi
I must admit I don't have that program. Are there any other options?
Thank you.
God bless,
Mark
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Marilyn Walker" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2009 10:26 AM
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Accessible Google Books?
If you have Kurzweil 1000, you could open the book and then go to the
k1000
virtual printer to see if it can read anything. marilyn
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