[NFBCS] Virtual mailbox accessibility

[Jim Barbour]

I use a service called physicaladdress.com they will scan your envelope as they arrive for free and I can read it on my iPhone with voiceover.

They will  scan the contents for a fee, with a few free per month.  The scans are images, but again I can read them on my iPhone. I use this for my personal mail. 

I would say that searchable PDF is very likely accessible PDF. If it were me, I would give them a shot first.

Hope that helps,

Jim 

Written while on the move,, 

> On Jun 23, 2023, at 3:55 PM, Doug Lee via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NFBCS <nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Doug Lee via NFBCS
> Sent: Friday, June 23, 2023 2:40 PM
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> Cc: Doug Lee <dgl at dlee.org>
> Subject: [NFBCS] Virtual mailbox accessibility
> 
> 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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