as per my little knowledge goes, OCR feature of jaws 13 does not support the screen shots. this fact should be brought to the notice of freedom scientific so that it could be taken care of in the next addition of jaws.
On 5/13/12, Mujtaba Merchant <mujta...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Members, > > > > Another trivial situation. Screen Shots for those of us who don't know, are > images captured of your desktop or the current window in focus. Usually > used > by the sighted to report system error messages and other support documents > for technical support. We as visually impaired can take screen shots of the > window in focus to send it to a sighted tech support person by pressing the > alt and print screen keys. We can also virtualize the window and copy the > matter or error message and send it, but surely the sighted assistance or > tech support guy would insist you for a screen shot. > > > > So I decided to try taking a screen shot of a window which gave me an error > message by using the alt print screen command, then pasting it in paint and > saving it as a jpeg file. this file is opened by the windows fax and > picture > viewer by default. We all know that error messages have some text > associated > to them. I tried to open the picture file and run a OCR on it. After the > OCR > was completed, to my surprise the JAWS cursor read something but I sure > could not make any sense of it at all! Early this year I got into a > situation where someone sent me a screen shot indicating a transaction > being > successfully done, this screen shot was of a website that showed the date > and time the transaction was made, with all the other details like the URL > and other stuff that was on that website. I had to use sighted assistance > to > be able to understand what the screen shot was all about. > > > > Long story short, how does one tackle such a sticky and crutial situation > being visually impaired? Do we have a way to demystify screen shots? > > > > Mujtaba Merchant > > Bangalore, India > > > Search for old postings at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ > > To unsubscribe send a message to > accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please > visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > -- smilyface smilyface smilyface. With Best Regards, Dr. Ghanshyam H. Asudani, Asstt. Prof. of English, Anand Niketan College of Agriculture, Warora 442914, Dist. Chandrapur, Maharashtra. Phone:- 07176-281485 Cell:- 7709468077 Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
