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

Sandra Gayer sandragayer7 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 23 09:22:41 UTC 2015


Hello,
Do you have to live in America to use this service?

Very best wishes,
Sandra.

On 1/23/15, Karl Martin Adam via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Yes, it can convert to and from a long list of (mostly
> inaccessible) file types including inaccessible pdfs.  You can
> either upload your file at www.robobraille.org or e-mail it to
> convert at robobraille.org attached to a blank e-mail with the file
> type you want it converted to in the subject line.
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
> From: Michael D Ausbun via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
> To: Kaiti Shelton <crazy4clarinet104 at gmail.com>, "National
> Association ofBlind Students mailing list" <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
> Date sent: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 04:38:50 +0000
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Making Texts on jpg file accessible?
>
> I apologize, I am slightly ignorant on this topic. What is Robo
> braille? Wednesday, say, convert a PDF that is composed of images
> instead of text, into an accessible format (if an individual
> doesn't have the latest version of jaws with the new document
> OCR).
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>  On Jan 22, 2015, at 8:35 PM, Kaiti Shelton via nabs-l
> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
>  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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