[Blindmath] Accessible visual objects by a screen reader

[Pranav Lal]

Hi Kiran,

As far as I know, Word and Excel cannot import scalable vector graphics. You
will either have to use openoffice or to convert the image into a raster
format and then import.

Pranav

-----Original Message-----
From: Blindmath [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Kiran S
Deshpande
Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2012 4:55 PM
To: bidhwin at gmail.com; 'Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics'
Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Accessible visual objects by a screen reader

Dear Pranav, 

Agreed that at the moment there is not a feature in the screen reader to
describe the graphic object, you have suggested me that the program SVG draw
1 can be used, i downloaded the same and used it to draw some shapes, saved
the file as sample1. Svg, now if i wanted to impot this file in a word
document or an excel sheet, it is not possible either. So is this the
limitation of the diagrams being drawn by some program that can be imported
in to word or excel directly.

Regards,

Kiran

-----Original Message-----
From: Blindmath [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Raju
singh
Sent: 15 December 2012 15:46
To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics
Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Accessible visual objects by a screen reader

Oh hi pranav sir, thanks a tonne for sharing such a valuable site!
-----Original message-----
From: Pranav Lal
Sent:  15/12/2012, 3:37  pm
To: 'Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics'
Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Accessible visual objects by a screen reader


Hi Kiran,

No screen reader can do what you ask. Screen Readers like Jaws and Window
Eyes access the document object models of programs like Excel and display
values relating to graphs. They don't do image analysis. Yes, we have OCR in
some of them but that does not handle math as far as I know. 

As for directly drawing shapes, the best we have is scalable vector
graphics. See http://www.dickbaldwin.com.
Pranav 


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