Absolutely Absolutely! Amen to all Chad indicates below! I agree with Chad 100 percent on this. I've been wanting something like this for years and years and years! and have been bugging people as to why it couldn't be done before. I was always told the "signal to noise," re onScreen OCRing, was too difficult. But, I'm incredibly excited about the possibilities of this OCR feature also! Now, if they were to take this further, and run with it, and build in, a hotspotclicker like manager for attaching these OCRed click zones to keystrokes, to save us having to do it in hsc, all the better! I really hope they do continue to run with this further, and allow people to define the screen Area to be OCRed manually as an adendum to this. and/or maybe even have the ability to have jaws auto-mess with the color contrasts of the pixels if possible, to maybe gain a sharper image to work with. I haven't tested it yet, but I'm jolly well looking forward to it! I can vaguely think of other accessible adendums tooI'd love to see with this, which I'm looking forward to talking to Jim and Andrew about re the hsc custom graphic pattern matching thing I've been wanting for ages also. yay! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chad Foster" <chad.foster@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2011 6:11 AM Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Jaws 13 OCR >I for one consider this to be one of the best features FS has > introduced in recent memory. I do think it's a game-changer. No longer > are we left in the dark when presented with an entirely graphical > window. > > Even if you had the OCR tool built into Windows, which by the way, is > not really possible in a locked-down corporate world, you could not > map it to the on-screen elements for clicking as JAWS now permits. > Reading the text is only one angle of the problem - it's also mapping > that to UI elements that are on-screen. > > I think the take-away from this is that we now have access to > information that was previously unavailable, with the ability to > interact with it, which was previously unthinkable. > > On 9/16/11, Andre Williams <andre.williams.1965@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> That governmental use was probably the original intent of feature >> development but now its being touted as being developed for the rest of >> us. >> There are probably few jaws users out there that don't have the >> restrictions >> you've outlined when using jaws at home. In other words, just a handful >> of >> us have this corporate use limitation and can find similar solutions >> without >> it costing $190--the cost of my SMA. >> >> There is lots of free software out there including a utility built right >> into windows one can use that does not depend on printing and scanning a >> document to run this type of OCR, so the time consuming process of >> printing >> and scanning a 15 page document is not a valid comment. >> >> Jonathan also said that for the first time this feature allowed him to >> know >> the total of his monthly phone bill--in other words, isn't this feature >> the >> greatest thing ever. I'm pretty sure Jonathan is resourceful enough to >> click >> on a link on that web page and get the total for his phone bill. His >> words >> just come off to me as needlessly insincere and manipulative. >> >> Overall, I just don't see this feature as worthy of a hit on my SMA. >> >> A-W >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Doug Lee" <doug.lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 12:38 PM >> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Jaws 13 OCR >> >> >> Wow... I can't address Jonathan Mosen's comments having failed to >> notice them for myself, but I for one think this feature will prove >> useful in some environments where it is impossible to access screen >> text by more direct means and also not permitted to install >> third-party software willy-nilly. This applies to a lot of corporate >> settings I've seen in my 11 years of scripting JAWS in work settings. >> >> Printing and recognizing a screen from paper, by the way, is so much >> slower than this, even if you have Matrix-speed agility (pun on movie >> and printer is intended there), that I simply don't recognize that >> approach as comparable in work settings such as I describe. If a >> coworker asks you to read a 15-page PDF and it's all images, you could >> indeed do that, even though again this approach should be much faster; >> but if it's a question of reading and interacting with a graphic >> screen containing text that JAWS normally can't see, printing and >> scanning the screen will not let you find and actually click on the >> Next button. >> >> I confess, I'm accustomed to seeing the naysayers soon after any >> release of any software from a large-market-share company (that would >> apply to JAWS, Microsoft, and even Apple now); but this is one feature >> of JAWS that I actually thought would fly above all that. >> >> Disclaimer: I do not work for Freedom Scientific. I work for a >> company that works with various screen reader vendors and many >> government and private organizations to improve the ability of blind >> employees to do their jobs in the workplace. I have written more >> scripts for JAWS than for any other screen reader, but I have also >> scripted for Window-Eyes on a number of occasions and have contributed >> a small amount of code to NVDA (Skype related, that was). >> >> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 12:23:54PM -0700, Andre Williams wrote: >> Guys, this seems like another useless jaws feature. This OCR thing is >> almost >> exactly what one can do with a screen capture utility built into Windows >> or >> what you can download get for fee. >> http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Take-a-screen-capture-print-your-screen >> >> Yeah, this screen capture process might be slightly faster with jaws 13, >> but >> is this worth a hit on one's SMA? I say h no! >> >> If you listen to the FS podcast you will also come across something to >> the >> effect of Jonathan saying that scriptors on this list were all excited >> about >> this new feature. I don't recall a single post on this list commenting on >> this feature. This makes Jonathan less than credible but I don't fall for >> company BS about their own products anyways. Furthermore, I wil now >> accept >> Jonathan's comments with a handful of salt. He's lots almost total >> credibility with me with this comment at it is blatantly disingenuous. He >> also claimed this feature to be a game changer in screen reader >> technology. >> >> A-W >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Chris Smart" <csmart8@xxxxxxxxx> >> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 8:00 AM >> Subject: [jawsscripts] Jaws 13 OCR >> >> >> So, have any of you played with the OCR feature in Jaws 13 beta yet? >> >> I managed to register a program last night, whose initial >> registration screen was formerly invisible to Jaws. Too bad that >> once I registered the program, the rest of the application turned >> out to be invisible as well. *LOL* >> >> So far, we can ocr and then read or mouse click on the results. >> In what ways could this new information gleaned through OCR be tied >> to other Jaws functions? I'm thinking it would be nice to be able >> to put the Jaws cursor on part of the OCR results and transfer the >> text into the graphics labeler, for example. >> >> Chris >> >> __________??? >> >> View the list's information and change your settings at >> //www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts >> >> __________??? >> >> View the list's information and change your settings at >> //www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts >> >> -- >> Doug Lee, Senior Accessibility Programmer >> SSB BART Group - Accessibility-on-Demand >> mailto:doug.lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.ssbbartgroup.com >> "While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, >> it was done." --Helen Keller >> __________� >> >> View the list's information and change your settings at >> //www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts >> >> __________� >> >> View the list's information and change your settings at >> //www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts >> >> > > > -- > Chad Foster > Access Technology Solutions > Leveling The Playing Field Through Technology > http://www.GO-ATS.net > __________� > > View the list's information and change your settings at > //www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts > __________� View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts