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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Wed, Aug 24 2011 8:48AM
Subject: Creating a text file with a web page as a screen reader "sees" it
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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

From: Bourne, Sarah (ITD)
Date: Wed, Aug 24 2011 9:06AM
Subject: Re: Creating a text file with a web page as a screen reader "sees" it
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Birkir,

I have an extension for Firefox called "Fangs" that does what you're talking about. I was able to Ctrl-a Ctrl-c to copy from it's pop-up window and paste it into Word, but it wasn't pretty. Maybe they would be happy using Fangs themselves!

Fangs is available at the Mozilla addon site: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fangs-screen-reader-emulator/

sb

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Subject: [WebAIM] Creating a text file with a web page as a screen reader "sees" it

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

From: Karen Mardahl
Date: Wed, Aug 24 2011 9:15AM
Subject: Re: Creating a text file with a web page as a screen reader "sees" it
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Hi Birkir

> 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).
>

Try http://wave.webaim.org and use the setting that strips styles. I think that would be correct.

Regards, Karen Mardahl

From: Steve Faulkner
Date: Wed, Aug 24 2011 9:21AM
Subject: Re: Creating a text file with a web page as a screen reader "sees" it
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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
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> 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
>

From: Keith
Date: Wed, Aug 24 2011 9:27AM
Subject: Re: Creating a text file with a web page as a screen reader"sees" it
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I've had a fairly close representation by making sure that Jaws is in
"Simple" rather than "Screen" under the Display settings, then do the Select
All (ctrl+a), Copying (ctrl+c), and ppasting into a plain text document in
Notepad (ctrl+v). Pasting into a wordprocessor tends to include formatting
and things.

It won't identify things that Jaws might otherwise read such as: list items,
blockquote, headline, link, form fields, etc.

from
Keith H

From: Angela French
Date: Wed, Aug 24 2011 9:33AM
Subject: Re: Creating a text file with a web page as a screen reader "sees" it
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Try http://wave.webaim.org and use the setting that strips styles. I think that would be correct.

Regards, Karen Mardahl



At first I thought of "stripping styles" too, but that doesn't do anything to linearize the reading of tables, which might be really important in evaluating the accessibility of complex tables.

Angela French

From: Tim Harshbarger
Date: Wed, Aug 24 2011 9:39AM
Subject: Re: Creating a text file with a web page as a screen reader "sees" it
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While in IE or FireFox, bring up the JAWS Adjust JAWS Options dialog (usually JAWS Key+V.) Make sure that under the Virtual Cursor Options section that the first item is set to "Select and Copy from Virtual Cursor." Close that dialog after the option is set and return to the browser window. Then press control+A and then control+C to select and copy the contents of the virtual cursor buffer.



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Subject: [WebAIM] Creating a text file with a web page as a screen reader "sees" it

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