"N" <n@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Dudley Hanks" <hanks.dudley@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "N" <n@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> Dudley, can you read if the text is large?
>>
>> If I blow the image up to where only two or three characters fit on the
>> screen (I have a 17" wide screen monitor), and, if I can get light
>> characters on a black background, I can "see" the text. However, at
that
>> magnification, it's not practical to crawl around the screen looking
for
>> words. It just takes too long.
>>
>> Using Omnipage, I can process an image and extract the text, but screen
>> shots have too many elements interfereing with the text. Also, the
>> program tries to make sense of fragments and piece them together into
>> semi-intelligent statements. It isn't always successful.
>>
>> I've learned from experience not to bother with screen shots.
>>
>> Take Care,
>> Dudley
>>
>>
>
>
> Windows Mouse Driver 6.2 and possibly earlier, I don't know, allows a
> mouse button to be set as a magnifier.
> This creates an enlarged rectangle on the screen. You can modify the
size
> and shape and magnification of the rectangle.
> The centre of the rectangle follows the mouse pointer around the screen.
Yes, I'm aware of that. Also, Windows Magnify does a fairly good job of
bumping up the size of the characters displayed in the rectangular area.
The catch is that the more I bump up the text, the smaller the highlighted
rectangle becomes. So, While the characters are half or three-quarters
the
height of the screen, the highlighted mouse pointer / rectangle is only a
small blip on the screen and I can't make it out. Also, the text that I
want to hover the mouse over is invisible to me, because of its small
size,
so I couldn't find it even if I could make out the highlighted mouse
pointer. It's all a viscious circle.
Believe me, I tried to read my monitor as long as I possibly could, and I
only reluctantly gave in and started using a screen-reader. This aversion
to speech was made even more difficult given my love of photography and my
desire to appreciate good graphical images.
So, when I say I can't read the screen even with the aid of magnification,
I
actually can't. The only caveat to this is that I sometimes tie in
magnification with my screen reader when I encounter characters the screen
reader can't (or won't) read. When this happens, I navigate to the
offending text using speech and then examine it as best I can in the
magnified area. Sometimes this works; sometimes it doesn't.
Take Care,
Dudley
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