{"id":319,"date":"2013-02-13T14:21:55","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T19:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.costain.ca\/?p=319"},"modified":"2014-03-20T11:18:03","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T15:18:03","slug":"an-accessibility-tip-for-ios-6-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.costain.ca\/fr\/2013\/02\/an-accessibility-tip-for-ios-6-users\/","title":{"rendered":"An accessibility tip for iOS 6 users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In researching affordable OCR apps for iOS, I came across this cheap alternative using full-featured software like GoQ&#8217;s WordQ, or Kurzweil to read printed documents aloud. ABBYY&#8217;s TextGrabber for iOS ($3.99 &#8211; <a title=\"TextGrabber + Translator\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/ca\/app\/textgrabber-+-translator\/id438475005?mt=8 https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/ca\/app\/textgrabber-+-translator\/id438475005?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes App Store link<\/a>) does a decent job at digitizing printed text. Once the text is digitized, the &#8220;Speak Selection&#8221; accessibility feature built-in to iOS 6 can be used to read the scanned text aloud. It&#8217;s not perfect, and works best on high contrast printed text, but it works quite well and is very affordable as long as you already have an iOS device.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a short tutorial I posted on YouTube:<\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=V3BO3luVUVU]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In researching affordable OCR apps for iOS, I came across this cheap alternative using full-featured software like GoQ&#8217;s WordQ, or Kurzweil to read printed documents aloud. ABBYY&#8217;s TextGrabber for iOS ($3.99 &#8211; iTunes App Store link) does a decent job at digitizing printed text. Once the text is digitized, the &#8220;Speak Selection&#8221; accessibility feature built-in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,8,4,85,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apple","category-computers","category-educational-technology","category-technology-2","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.costain.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.costain.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.costain.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.costain.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.costain.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.costain.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":604,"href":"https:\/\/www.costain.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions\/604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.costain.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.costain.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.costain.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.costain.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}