[Faith-talk] I bought a book that was scanned as an image

[Maureen Pranghofer]

Hi
I do Braille transcription from my home and ran into this problem recently 
when I was transcribing a document for a church in Alabama.  I ask customers 
to email me things to be transcribed in Word because it is more efficient 
and I don't have to charge them as much as when I transcribe something I 
have to convert from pdf.  Anyway this was a workbook covering Revelation 
and another study on the Minor Prophets.  I did Revelation just fine but 
wrote back and said the Minor Prophets was missing.  They resent it again as 
a doc file in Word.  But it appeared to be blank.  I asked my husband to 
check it out and he said it was the book but it was printed over an image. 
I had to write back to the customer anBlessings
Maureen Pranghofer
d tell them that I needed it without the picture, they were able to do this 
and it worked fine, but if more places are doing this we won't know if even 
files which have been spoken by our screen readers will work or not.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Debby Phillips via Faith-talk
Sent: Saturday, February 06, 2016 11:31 PM
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Cc: Debby Phillips
Subject: Re: [Faith-talk] I bought a book that was scanned as an image

Hey POPPA Bear, I'm behind in email, but I have a suggestion.
You should contact the publisher of the book and explain your
problem.  They may be able to get an accessible copy for you,
plus they need to know why their book won't work for blind folks.
This is part of the problem with no regulations, nothing to let
publishers, and Internet providers know what they need to do to
have accessible books and websites.  At any rate, you should be
able to get your money back.    Blessings,    Debby

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