Re: add OCR function

Alex Jordan <[email protected]> Mon, 26 May 2014 22:16:15 -0700
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On May 26, 2014 6:18 PM, "vk.recipe" <[email protected]> wrote:
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>     have OCR (optical character recognition) function in firefox.
> while on the web, sometimes in the 'Help' or 'HOW TO DO' instruction
pages, the author use screen shots of a page of words or the menu of their
product. would be helpful if such information is converted into real words
so the blind can use their text-to-speech software to read the information.
now only the sighted have the benefit of the screenshot but not the blind.
This is what the alt= attribute of <img> is for.