I can just imagine your friend's problem. sometimes the only way is human
to human as some of the e-mail support structures are automated, and the
results can be a scream. helping site owners realize that screen readers
are used by a broader population than just the vision challenged may help,
even if only illustrating the numbers.
one figure I have sen suggests that more than 15% of the US population
has a print disability requiring some kind of screen reading technology.
This was not a vision related number either.
Thanks again,
Karen
On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, JOHN PANARESE wrote:
As I said, this has become a very hot topic and it will be interesting
to see how or if it can be resolved in a way that will provide some
kind of access for screen reader users. Audio alternatives appear to
be the offered solutions, but without a doubt, these would have to
improve. As with you, usually, I find the website owner to be quite
understanding and helpful, but in other instances, this is not the
case. Oddly enough, a blind friend of mine just had a very difficult
time communicating this issue with Microsoft while trying to create a
MSN account. The emails forwarded to me were quite amusing, yet also
disconcerting.
Take Care
John D. Panarese
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Technologies for the Visually Impaired, Inc.
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On Sep 26, 2006, at 2:59 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
Those are what I mean yes.
When I find one I really must manage, I communicate the problem to the site
owners, more often then not with good results. Usually they had not a clue
the problem existed.
Once in a great while though I run into someone who figures I have a tamed
sighted pet person around to read them whenever I ask. It took me about
two years to set up a paypal account.
Karen
On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, JOHN PANARESE wrote:
> If you are talking about the captures, or whatever those image
> security
> numbers/letters are called, I don't think any screen reader will
> work
> with them. This has been a hot topic on a few other lists I'm on.
> Since they are used to prevent spammers from making accounts with
> bots,
> it's a difficult issue. The audio alternatives are the current
> solutions, but I also don't find them helpful at times. It took me
> about eight attempts to create a secondary AIM account a few months
> back to understand the bloody numbers and letters being read.
>
> Take Care
>
> John D. Panarese
> Managing Director
> Technologies for the Visually Impaired, Inc.
> 9 Nolan Court
> Hauppauge, NY 11788
> Tel/Fax, (631) 724-4479
> Email, [EMAIL PROTECTED] net
> Internet, http://www.tvi-web.com
>
> AUTHORIZED DISTRIBUTORS FOR PORTSET SYSTEMS LTD, COMPSOLUTIONS VA,
> PREMIER ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGIES, INDEX, PAPENMEIER, REPRO-TRONICS,
> DUXBURY, DANCING DOTS AND OTHER PRODUCTS FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY
> IMPAIRED
>
> AUTHORIZED APPLE BUSINESS ASSOCIATE
> MAC VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SALES
>
>
>
>
> On Sep 26, 2006, at 1:58 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> > I am sure somewhere this subject has come up, but as I just ran into
> > one of those...again, I was wondering how vo manages these if at all?
> > I have always guessed that if a test could be read by a screen reader,
> > it would not be a sound test given how at least n some platforms the
> > reader works.
> > I do not find the spoken options to work with my setup. how is this
> > managed with vo?
> > Thanks,
> > Karen
>
