[jawsscripts] Re: web sites with graphics
- From: "Geoff Chapman" <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 11:40:36 +1100
ah. hmmm. this was eye-opening info! Thanks for the headsup on this one
Elise.
more traps for young players eh?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Elise Lonsdale" <elise@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 9:00 AM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: web sites with graphics
> Hi All,
> Having not seen the web site in question, it's also possible that the
> graphic in question was produced by one of those programs that place text
> inside a graphic. To the sighted and possibly novice web developer, they
> just see what appears as text and continue building their web site
> oblivious
> to whether it's a graphic with nice smooth text in their graphic or true
> text, which we can read with a screen reader.
>
> I've seen web pages bashed up by Microsoft Publisher, where if a bloc of
> text appears close to a picture or word art, the program will just make a
> nice bit fat graphic of that part of the page to preserve the visual
> layout
> for the novice developer, Bingo you get a non-accessible web page.
>
> Warm Regards - Elise Lonsdale
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jackie McBride
> Sent: Friday, 5 November 2010 7:08 AM
> To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: web sites with graphics
>
> Ann, u queried:
> As far as BitMaps does this mean that a photo was taken of text data and
> then posted rather than someone typeing text info?
>
> Basically, that's pretty much right. Whether the text was
> photographed, drawn, etc., it was done as a graphic rather than text &
> no screenreader, except possibly Cobra, reads that.
>
> W/o an access code, if the site is ok till then, the link is pretty much
> ndg.
>
> On 11/4/10, Ann Marie Medlar <amedlar1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> As far as BitMaps does this mean that a photo was taken of text data and
>> then posted rather than someone typeing text info?
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jackie McBride" <abletec@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 12:02 PM
>> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: web sites with graphics
>>
>>
>>> Likely the screen was drawn in bitmaps as opposed to printing of
>>> actual text, &, if that be the case, no scripting in the world's gonna
>>> fix it because Jaws is simply unable to read bitmaps. Having said
>>> thus, u didn't provide the site url in order for us to check.
>>>
>>> On 11/4/10, Ann Marie Medlar <amedlar1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> Hello all,
>>>> I used IE to go to a web site to take a word test. I had an access
>>>> code
>>>> from the site and when I entered a new browser window opens.
>>>> Jaws reports graphics...
>>>> Is there any way to scritp this easily to access?
>>>> The screen instructed me to open a specific file and then to proceed.
>>>> A
>>>> sighted person told me that is what my screen stated.
>>>> I used Windows XP Pro, Jaws11.xx and IE 8.0.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Just curious how could this become more accessible?
>>>> Ann
>>>>
>>>>
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