Blind researcher's problem with access to Census images

I am a member of a new listserve where a researcher who has vision
problems says she uses a screenreader to look at Census images.

She says specifically that: "the problem is my screenreader does not
read what I need it to such as "enter name searching for" instead
all I get is "Edit". I only know I am supposed to type something
there."

Is there anyone on this list who knows more about these
screenreaders and how to use them to access Census images?

BTW, I've already advised her to join this listserve and ask for
help!

Hugh Watkins...

contact the owner of the images and the pages
it sounds like badly written html which has not
been tested

got it!!! use
BOBY

andpsot the url here too

Hugh W

Hugh Watkins

John...

Even pages that are W3C WAI Level 1compliant usually have only a
*description* of each image in the ALT field. See example here:
each of the large graphics to view the description)

The only way *image content* will be available is by transcription
to text. Considering the difficuty human readers have in
interpreting some of the Census page writing, it will be a long time
before this is a place for optical character recognition (OCR).

John

John