[gui-talk] Difficulties with court transcripts in PDF format and JAWS
Susan Kelly
Susan.Kelly at pima.gov
Wed Jan 21 14:09:24 UTC 2015
Thanks! We're trying everything - keep your fingers crossed, as I am sure our network is a large part of the problem as well.
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From: Louis Maher [mailto:ljmaher at swbell.net]
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 3:43 PM
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Subject: RE: [gui-talk] Difficulties with court transcripts in PDF format and JAWS
With the convenient OCR, d will translate the entire pdf document. Hit insert + space, o, d.
Regards
Louis Maher
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E-mail ljmaher at swbell.net
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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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