[nfbcs] How to read images in email

Greg Kearney gkearney at gmail.com
Tue Sep 18 15:46:26 UTC 2018


Communicate with people that you need to have the information typed into the body of the email. Put this on you email signature lines. 

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Greg Kearney


> On Sep 18, 2018, at 9:37 AM, Curtis Chong via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello Tracy:
> 
> One approach I use is to  to copy and paste the entire message into Word,
> save it as a PDF, and then ask JAWS to recognize the PDF file. While this is
> labor intensive and people should know better than to send us images, it is
> at least a solution that can be applied to this problem.
> 
> Cordially,
> 
> Curtis Chong
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbcs <nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Tracy Carcione via nfbcs
> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 6:07 AM
> To: nfbcs at nfbnet.org
> Cc: Tracy Carcione <carcione at access.net>
> Subject: [nfbcs] How to read images in email
> 
> More and more, I'm being sent images in email with info I need to know. 
> This morning, it was a user sending me a screen print.  I had to have a
> coworker come over and read the pertinent data to me.
> It's not a link or an attachment, just a string of characters in the
> middle of the page, ending with .jpg.
> I tried to click on it, but nothing happened.  I tried Jaws OCR, but
> nothing happened with that, either.
> The person who helped me just saw the image as part of the email, nothing
> unusual.
> Is there a way to read this kind of image without rounding up a sighted
> person?
> Tracy
> 
> 
> 
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