[ddots-l] Re: Jaws 13 and the OCR Feature
- From: Vince Mistretta <vmistretta1411@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:31:40 -0400
Hmmm...looks like this may work with some of the patch editors out
there which are not fully accessible either. I've got two I may want
to try this with which doesn't have much graphics.
Thanks for the heads up.
On 9/29/11, Bryan Smart <bryansmart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If you all haven't tried the public beta of Jaws 13, you might want to think
> about doing so.
>
> The new major feature in version 13 is the built-in OCR support for the Jaws
> cursor. This feature should be a huge help for those of us that work with
> softsynths and effects that display information on the screen in ways that
> screen readers can't normally recognize.
>
> With the new feature, you can press a command, and Jaws will use optical
> character recognition (like in OpenBook or Kurzweil 1000) to identify any
> text in the current window, even if the entire window was directly drawn on
> the screen/all graphics. After a few seconds, the Jaws cursor will activate,
> and you can arrow around the window, reading the identified text as if it
> were displayed on the screen through normal means. Once you find the text of
> a control, such as a browse button, you can click on it to activate it, just
> as you could if the text were visible to the standard Jaws cursor.
>
> I've tried it with a few synths that were previously inaccessible, and have
> been able to use them to a greater extent than before. As an example, I've
> been able to use some of the Native Instruments synths in a very limited
> way.
>
> For some synths, I've been able to click on the name of the current preset,
> and then use the arrows to change to other presets. With other synths, I've
> been able to press load buttons that cause standard file open dialogs to
> appear where I can select other bank files. My list of synths tried with
> this feature is still fairly short, but the results are interesting, so far.
>
> Please carefully temper your enthusiasm, though. This isn't a magic bullet.
> Just because it is possible to find and click on text doesn't mean that
> you'll be able to edit most parameters. Also, the interfaces of some synths
> will be too flashy and colorful for OCR to read anything useful from them.
> Finally, if the synth uses buttons that indicate their function with icons,
> but no text, then the OCR feature won't help, either. As is typical of OCR,
> the results are sometimes cluttered with garbage characters and mistakes.
> This feature will be a great addition to our toolbox, though.
>
> With limited testing, CakeTalking 8.5 seems to work fine with Jaws 13.
>
> If you try Jaws 13's OCR feature with softsynth and effects plug ins, please
> post your experiences.
>
> Bryan
>
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