You said "For me this also holds true for badly designed web sites. My
screen reading application should not be so complex as to try to decipher
what is on the screen. Developers need to adhere to standards, W3C for
example, that make the sites accessible to as many people as possible."
Standards, what standards? Who enforces these standards? Voluntary
compliance is sorely lacking. It needs to become mandatory complliance.
Quote of the nanosecond...
Don't use a lot where a little will do.
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----- Original Message -----
From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 9:00 AM
Subject: RE: Window-Eyes and OCR
I can't think why anyone would say that on-screen OCR would not be a
proper function for a screen reading program.
OK, since I am the one who opened up this can, I will comment.
My expectations of a program, like Window-Eyes, is to give me access to
my computer. So I want to know when I am on my desktop, my start menu,
taskbar etc. When I launch a web browser I need to know if I am reading
text or what type of element has focus; link, button, check box, and so
on.
If an image pops up that is in a PDF file or if there is a jpg, tif,
gif, . . . file up there, if Window-Eyes lets me know that there is a
graphic I don't think it is the responsibility of WE to try to guess if
there is text that needs to be pushed through an OCR engine.
Let's use Adobe Acrobat as an example. The paid version of Adobe Acrobat
has OCR capabilities. Why have I not urged Adobe to put that into their
Adobe Reader that is currently free? I feel if they put that capability
into their free product that would make it screen reader independent.
And yes, I feel the ball should be in their court and companies like GW
Micro shouldn't be expected to pick up the slack.
For me this also holds true for badly designed web sites. My screen
reading application should not be so complex as to try to decipher what
is on the screen. Developers need to adhere to standards, W3C for
example, that make the sites accessible to as many people as possible.
Vic
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