[jawsscripts] Re: web sites with graphics
- From: "Elise Lonsdale" <elise@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 15:23:30 +1100
Hi Ann,
If a web developer is looking for a quick and inexpensive solution to a
problem like what's below, they would be well served learning their trade
properly and getting it Wright in the first place.
A user of a web site should not have to be OCR'ing the text to send it back
to the web site and it's owner only to have subsequent users click on some
special link to access that text. W3C standards clearly define how a web
site should be created using all the necessary markup that should make
almost every web page accessible to us with little messing around. It's
just that there are a lot of people out there who just don't have a clue how
to do it Wright in the first place.
Warm Regards
Elise Lonsdale
Do you know if there is software to convert smooth text to pure text?
I am just thinking that if a site has inaccessible text then one could save
page in question in some format, then put file through OpenBook or another
conversion software package, save as text or something readable, then
possibly give file back to web developer to add a link text only link and
post text info under accessible link?
I have no idea about web development but just thinking how an inaccessible
site might become accessible at low cost and effort.
Ann
----- Original Message -----
From: "Elise Lonsdale" <elise@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 6:00 PM
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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