[nabs-l] Making Texts on jpg file accessible?

Kaiti Shelton crazy4clarinet104 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 23 04:35:05 UTC 2015


Yes, I use robo braille to make this work.  It's come in pretty handy
quite a few times, though in my experiences at least it can take a
little longer for image conversion than documents.  Just don't freak
out if it takes them a little longer to email you the text.  :)

On 1/22/15, justin williams via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Have you tried robo braille? I think the file type is on there for being
> able to be made accessible.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Miso Kwak via
> nabs-l
> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 10:08 PM
> To: nabs-l at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [nabs-l] Making Texts on jpg file accessible?
>
> Hi NABS,
> I am writing to see if there is any way I can access texts that are
> formated
> as jpg image files on the web.
> Here is a sample link.
> http://dspace.wrlc.org/view/ImgViewer?url=http://dspace.wrlc.org/doc/manifes
> t/2041/40106
> This is a part of The Silent Worker, a Deaf community newspaper from the
> 19th century and the early 20th century (home page found here...
> http://proxy.aladin0.wrlc.org/gsdl/collect/gasw/gasw.shtml
> )
> I need to access articles from here as a part of my assignment for History
> of Deaf Community in America class.
> The professor is understanding of the accessiblity problem so we are
> looking
> at different altermnative options but I would love to know if there is any
> way I could access the texts found on this website such as the sample link
> I
> provided above.
> Will KNFB Reader be able to somehow convert the images and recognize texts?
> If so how would I be able to do it?
> Any other suggestions are welcome.
> Miso Kwak
>
>
>
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Kaiti




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