[NFBCS] Access Tips

[Elizabeth Campbell]

Curtis, thanks. This is a very helpful tip. I'm working from home right
now,and who knows how long that will continue. People send me emails
frequently with embedded images. Now, I know how to deal with that
information independently as I don't have sighted colleagues around.

On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 9:28 AM Curtis Chong via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
wrote:

>
> People who send out email oftentimes like to imbed images of data into the
> email-data that results from something in Windows called a print screen.
> What they do is to print the screen to the Windows clipboard and then paste
> the image into the email. The place where I live frequently does this when
> things like restaurant menus are sent out via email.
>
> Unfortunately, for JAWS users, there is no indication while reading the
> email that there is a graphic imbedded in the message. So, unless you know
> that something should be there, you might well miss a critical piece of
> information that somebody wants to send to you.
>
> One way to know whether or not an email contains an imbedded graphic is to
> select the entire message body (press Control A), copy it to the clipboard
> (Control C), and then pasting the entire thing into a blank Word document.
> In this way, you will know (because JAWS will tell you) that there are some
> graphics n the message.
>
> Now that you have pasted the message into Word, you should save this as a
> PDF file. Once that is done, you can use JAWS Convenient OCR to perform
> optical character recognition against the PDF file. Using File Explorer,
> focus on the PDF file. Now, press Shift F10 to bring up the context menu.
> Arrow down to Convenient OCR With JAWS and press Enter. In a few seconds, a
> window will open up containing the extracted text.
>
> Cordially,
>
> Curtis Chong
>
>
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-- 
Elizabeth Campbell