Dear Steve Thanks for this. You are right for this search on Milton and I found the appropriate accessible links on the "featured books" on the Google Books Search page also.
However I now realise that this is far from a universal service from Google. For example, I searched under Deviance as this is an area I had recently studied. Lots of results came up but none of the first 7 books I tried had the accessible screen reader link and would only provide the text in images. The reason I was confused before was I believed this to be universally implemented by Google. However they have clearly decided on a partial implementation for the time being. I suppose we should be glad that they are doing anything but you would think that whilst they are scanning they could do the OCR on the fly? Thanks again. Regards David Griffith -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Griffiths, Steve Sent: Thursday, 13 December 2007 11:14 To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Google Books David, I haven't read the article, but I have found the link. I did a search in Google Books for Milton, then chose Paradise Lost: A poem in twelve books from the search results. When the page loaded, there was a graphic link at the top called Accessible Version for Screenreader users; it's the first line of the page and also appears in the links list. I didn't have to go to full screen mode to get the link. When I pressed the link, another page loaded and I pressed N twice to get to "graphic page chrome"; the OCR version of the page appeared between this and another "graphic page chrome" which signified the end of that page. The next page link has an access key of Alt + N. Steve -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Griffith Sent: 12 December 2007 23:23 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: [JAWS-Users] Google Books Dear List I have just read an article on an attempt to make Google Books accessible to Jaws. Allegedly there is a "hidden" link available to Jaws users which will enable them to access an OCR text version of the images of pages normally inaccessible to us. This OCR link is apparently only available when you put Google Books into full view mode. There is a link for this which I found by using Control F and searching for full. This link did not appear in Links list or as a button but worked when I pressed enter on it. However I could not find a hidden OCR link. Has anybody else been able to find this and make it work? 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