[bksvol-discuss] Re: o/t: Web Visum improves website access for blind
- From: "Chris Hofstader" <cdh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 06:31:23 -0400
I'm not sure this will put them on your Braille display but it will, with a
keystroke, paste the information into the edit box which, while not a great
solution for people with deaf/blindness, it is far better than the
alternative of no access at all.
I wrote about this in my blog (http://www.blindconfidential.blogger.com)
yesterday. It is an incredible step forward that came "out of the blue" and
caught all of the major AT players sleeping.
cdh
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Thank you, Jackie! It is so good of you to share this with us. Those
captias have been no-no's for me, as I can neither see nor hear them!
<smile> How great it will be if they show up on my Braille display!!!
Have a good one!
Sue S.
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From: "Jackie McBride" <abletec@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2008 11:40 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] o/t: Web Visum improves website access for blind
Ever been annoyed by captias u can't see much less solve? Or by
labeled images that may as well have been written in Martian?
Enter Web Visum! This is the best excuse you'll ever find for making
Firefox your default browser. WebVisum (visum is vision in Latin) is a
firefox 3 plugin that does all sorts of things:
1) It lets u label links & share those labels w/other users--u, in
turn, get theirs;
2) it can solve most captias w/a keystroke & puts the result on the
clipboard for pasting into the appropriate field, thus making it
suitable for both blind & deaf-blind;
3) It can OCR some image links, thereby turning them into a
recognizeable label instead of whatever;
4) It's free, & its development is ongoing.
This has been developed by a couple of sighted folks who, out of their
generosity, wanna help. I think they will start in the future
developing a premium version, but the basic features I've outlined,
they say, will remain free.
Check it out at:
www.webvisum.com
BTW, I have no affiliation w/them, nothing to gain by advertising
this, accept possibly to help some1.
Blessings.
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Jackie McBride
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