<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>I would say that searchable PDF is very likely accessible PDF. If it were me, I would give them a shot first.</div><div><br></div><div>Hope that helps,</div><div><br></div><div>Jim </div><div><br><div dir="ltr">Written w<span style="font-size: 13pt;">hile on the move,, </span></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jun 23, 2023, at 3:55 PM, Doug Lee via NFBCS <nfbcs@nfbnet.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>Are you just using the Mail app on your phone for this, or the USPS website, or an actual USPS app? I have</span><br><span>not done mail on my phone for a long time, so I would have missed this approach. Thanks much for the tip.</span><br><span></span><br><span>On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 07:48:06PM +0000, NFBCS mailing list wrote:</span><br><span>Doug:</span><br><span></span><br><span>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.</span><br><span>Hope this helps.</span><br><span>Jim</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>-----Original Message-----</span><br><span>From: NFBCS <nfbcs-bounces@nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Doug Lee via NFBCS</span><br><span>Sent: Friday, June 23, 2023 2:40 PM</span><br><span>To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List <nfbcs@nfbnet.org></span><br><span>Cc: Doug Lee <dgl@dlee.org></span><br><span>Subject: [NFBCS] Virtual mailbox accessibility</span><br><span></span><br><span>In canvassing Google for reviews, examining Earth Class and iPostal1 directly, scanning Apple Vis, etc., I</span><br><span>am not coming up with concrete information on which virtual mailbox services happen to offer routine text</span><br><span>conversion of received postal mail. iPostal1 appears to offer it for about $2.00 per envelope, but it says</span><br><span>you get a "searchable PDF." This implies text but I don't know for certain if that means it is reasonably</span><br><span>accessible. The USPS Inform service is decidedly not nice for this, unless you're ok with downloading and</span><br><span>scanning individual images for every mail.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Any information on accessible virtual mailbox services would be appreciated. My interests here are both</span><br><span>personal and business oriented.</span><br><span></span><br><span>--</span><br><span>Doug Lee dgl@dlee.org http://www.dlee.org/</span><br><span>"When your best-laid plans have turned to dust, vacuum!"</span><br><span>- Whoopi Goldberg</span><br><span></span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>NFBCS mailing list</span><br><span>NFBCS@nfbnet.org</span><br><span>http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfbcs_nfbnet.org</span><br><span>To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for NFBCS:</span><br><span>http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfbcs_nfbnet.org/jdenham%40wcblind.org</span><br><span></span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>NFBCS mailing list</span><br><span>NFBCS@nfbnet.org</span><br><span>http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfbcs_nfbnet.org</span><br><span>To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for NFBCS:</span><br><span>http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfbcs_nfbnet.org/dgl%40dlee.org</span><br><span></span><br><span>-- </span><br><span>Doug Lee dgl@dlee.org http://www.dlee.org</span><br><span>"It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both</span><br><span>incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by</span><br><span>dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper." --Rod Serling</span><br><span></span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>NFBCS mailing list</span><br><span>NFBCS@nfbnet.org</span><br><span>http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfbcs_nfbnet.org</span><br><span>To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for NFBCS:</span><br><span>http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfbcs_nfbnet.org/jbar%40barcore.com</span><br><span></span><br></div></blockquote></div></body></html>