[NFBCS] Virtual mailbox accessibility

[Doug Lee]

Are you just using the Mail app on your phone for this, or the USPS website, or an actual USPS app? I have
not done mail on my phone for a long time, so I would have missed this approach. Thanks much for the tip.

On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 07:48:06PM +0000, NFBCS mailing list wrote:
Doug:

I recently started using the USPS Informed Delivery service and found it works terrific with an iPhone. The image recognition within Voiceover does a nice job of reading the photos of each piece of mail. There is no way of saving this info, but it is very readable and quite accurate.
Hope this helps.
Jim


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In canvassing Google for reviews, examining Earth Class and iPostal1 directly, scanning Apple Vis, etc., I
am not coming up with concrete information on which virtual mailbox services happen to offer routine text
conversion of received postal mail. iPostal1 appears to offer it for about $2.00 per envelope, but it says
you get a "searchable PDF." This implies text but I don't know for certain if that means it is reasonably
accessible. The USPS Inform service is decidedly not nice for this, unless you're ok with downloading and
scanning individual images for every mail.

Any information on accessible virtual mailbox services would be appreciated. My interests here are both
personal and business oriented.

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