[nabs-l] Downloading Images Nonvisually

[Cindy Bennett]

To follow up, the custom label feature works again in the photos app,
so I will definitely start using it again! Too bad the labels from my
first photos a few years ago did not reappear. :(

Cindy

On 1/8/15, Cindy Bennett <clb5590 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I use JAWS and mostly IE and Firefox. Do any of you have strategies
> for downloading images that appear as search results nonvisually? I
> always verify whether the image is oriented and sized correctly, but
> one thing I would like to do is to download a few images of generic
> thing that I am looking for like the beach for instance, and to then
> get someone's assistance picking the best one. But I am often unable
> to focus on the photo to save it. When I attempt to save the photo, it
> is an html file, so some rendition of the web page, and it won't
> operate like a photo when I attempt to insert it into a presentation.
>
> What are your strategies for obtaining and keeping track of photos
> nonvisually.
>
> Before iOS 6, the custom label feature of VO allowed one to make
> custom labels of photos. When this feature went away, I was super
> disappointed as about 100 of my photos with descriptive custom labels
> disappeared and were replaced with unhelpful descriptors only
> including the date and time. If I save photos on my computer, I save
> them with descriptive file names and ask people to descriptively label
> photos that they send me.
>
> But sometimes, I just need a generic image quickly and it has been
> very frustrating attempting to navigate Google images and to download
> a few images to run by a reader. I know I could just have my reader do
> this, but I right click and download other things online and am
> curious if there are any particular strategies for focusing on a photo
> in such a way that I can download it similarly to other types of
> files.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Cindy Bennett
> 1st Year Ph.D. Student, University of Washington
> Human Centered Design and Engineering
>
> Treasurer of the Greater Seattle Chapter and of the National
> Federation of the Blind of Washington
> Affiliates of the National Federation of the Blind
>
> clb5590 at gmail.com
>


-- 
Cindy Bennett
1st Year Ph.D. Student, University of Washington
Human Centered Design and Engineering

Treasurer of the Greater Seattle Chapter and of the National
Federation of the Blind of Washington
Affiliates of the National Federation of the Blind

clb5590 at gmail.com