[gui-talk] Difficulties with court transcripts in PDF format and JAWS

[Louis Maher]

With the convenient OCR, d will translate the entire pdf document.  Hit
insert + space, o, d.


Regards
Louis Maher
Phone 713-444-7838
E-mail ljmaher at swbell.net

-----Original Message-----
From: gui-talk [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Wayne
Merritt via gui-talk
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 4:26 PM
To: Susan Kelly; Discussion of the Graphical User Interface, GUI Talk
Mailing List
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Difficulties with court transcripts in PDF format
and JAWS

If you have JAWS 16, you might try the Convenient OCR feature. Start by
pressing Insert with Space, then O for OCR, then either S to recognize the
screen or W to recognize the window. For help after you press O for OCR, use
the questionmark. This feature is supposed to have gotten some improvements
in JAWS 16. If you have Kurzweil 1000 or OpenBook, you might try to
open/import the files in them. I have had really good results with Kurzweil
1000 when opening PDF files.

Best,
Wayne


On 1/20/15, Susan Kelly via gui-talk <gui-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Our court of appeals loads the transcripts for cases to its website, 
> which is becoming increasingly inaccessible, thanks to the use of 
> semi-described images on at least half of its links instead of properly
labeled link-boxes.
>  I can navigate around that, albeit slowly, by continuing to click 
> through each link (they don't list well) until I hear what seems to be 
> the proper link for whatever it is I need to do.  The real problem 
> comes in once I have accessed my case file and try to listen to the 
> transcripts themselves.  Some are PDF, while others are simply .tif or 
> .jpg scans.  On top of that, even the PDF files have not been properly 
> OCRd, or so it seems, as they will not read through continuously despite
my settings in Adobe and JAWS.
>
> My assistant has tried to circumvent this issue by downloading the 
> file to our office network.  The problem persists, though, with the 
> narration stopping at then of each page; using a "page down" or "ctrl page
down"
> command is ineffective, as reading starts back up mid-page; I thus 
> have to advance it one line forward (which does not read) and then 
> back up one and start the "read all" command again to read each page.  
> This is very time-consuming and annoying, and I have to assume that it 
> is, at least in part, the result of the manner in which the court 
> reporter has transcribed the documents.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions how to tackle this problem?  Also, 
> does anyone know how I would word a polite letter to the reporters / 
> courts to suggest that these documents be better prepared?  Because I 
> work in the juvenile court, our time limits are extremely short and 
> this is a time waste that I really would like to avoid.
>
> Thanks!
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