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From: Jonathan H
Date: May 17, 2015 4:42AM

Sorry if this isn't quite the right mailing list, but I have an urgent
question which has just been dumped on me about something happening
this afternoon!

If you were to want to send a photo slideshow, over the web, to a
group of people in another country which included a completely blind
couple, what would you use?

The receiving group will be all together in the same room; the blind
people don't want the sighted people to have to read the descriptions,
and the sighted people are quite happy to listen to a screenreader for
the photos.

So it would be, say, 10 seconds on each slide, and the text for an
image would be something like:

"Group photo of family on top of Mount Etna, taken early morning with
blue sky and dense patches of cloud filling the valley. "

I was going to suggest that the "local" person sending the photos use
Picasa to describe the images, then upload them to Google Plus, but I
don't know how well that works with screenreaders.

Again, sorry, I know it all sounds a bit confusing and confused, but
that's how it was described to me and I'm hoping someone can suggest
something not too technical!