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Re: Creating a text file with a web page as a screen reader "sees" it

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From: Steve Faulkner
Date: Aug 24, 2011 9:21AM

hi, Use NVDA and in the tools menu select 'speech viewer' this outputs what
NVDA announces as text.


regards
stevef

On 24 August 2011 15:50, Birkir R. Gunnarsson
< <EMAIL REMOVED> >wrote:

> Oh yea wise ones
>
> This is probably trivial, and I am just failing to get this to work.
> I am evaluating a web page, and the people in charge would like to see
> it prcisely as my screen reader does (Jaws in this case, or NVDA).
> I could do this "live" by using "Braille Viewer", but I am not there.
> What I want to do is to create a text file with the page as it appears
> in my screen reader. I tried to do this in Jaws by virtualizing the IE
> window and copying the text, but this only shows the first couple of
> lines of the page.
> Is there a better way to do this?
> I don't really need the advanced navigation info, such as headings
> etc, they just want to
> see the page content as I would see it linearly using Jaws (NVDA or
> any other screen reader for that matter).
> If there is an easy way to do this, please let me know.
> Thanks
> -B
>