Gordon, JAWS (and NVDA too for that matter) have the ability to scrape a page and look for content that is not usually accessible to the screen reader and then makes it become accessible.
For example you have a application which has labelled buttons, and I mean a sighted person can see the text on those buttons, but the screen reader reads the button as "button". JAWS is able to perform an OCR and make those buttons readable. This feature is particularly useful when watching a DVD. Currently menus on DVDs are not accessible, JAWS fixes that problem. These are just a couple of examples. I would love to see this feature added to voiceover, but as Apple like to jump onto the spring years of technology, I can't see them adopting DVD OCR as DVDs are in the autumn years of their life and will eventually be fully replaced with streaming / downloads. JAWS 13 has some very interesting features, especially when using the text analyser with MS Word. I have still not found a way for JAWS to tell me if I have incorrectly spelt a word after hitting the spacebar which I have taken for granted on the Mac. Mind you, I am still on XP at work and using office 2003, so that might have a baring. Chris On 3 Aug 2012, at 12:58, Gordon Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all > > Just one more question, for now. What's this "OCR Engine For Convenient OCR" > on the Jaws website? > > Gordon > > > ======================================= > > The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus > and worm-free > > To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web > pages located at > http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group at > either of the following websites: > > http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html > > Or: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> > you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> > > --------------------------------------- ======================================= The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web pages located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group at either of the following websites: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html Or: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> ---------------------------------------
