TopOCR's Visually Accessible User Interface
TopOCR's Visual Accessibility is about making the user interface usable for people with a wide range of visual impairment.
The Accessible Interface has no reliance upon visual feedback, nor any reliance upon GUI controls that require visual feedback.
The Accessible Interface is based on a keyboard command system that uses the easy to locate Function keys on the top row of a standard keyboard.
Each Accessible Command is just a single key press.
Each command also supplies audio feedback when pressed.
It also doesn't require visual feedback to launch the TopOCR application.
You can launch TopOCR from the DeskTop and put it in Accessible Mode in a simple 2 step process shown below:
1. Type "Cntrl-Alt-Q" to launch TopOCR
2. Type "Control-Q" to put TopOCR into Accessible Mode/ or back to GUI mode
Five Basic Command To Use TopOCR
F1 key to scan, OCR and speak the output to you
F2 key to pause or resume the Text To Speech
F3 key to convert the Text To Speech output into an MP3 file and automatically save it on an MP3 player
F11 key to get screen and audio list of all commands
F12 key to exit the program
TopOCR's MP3 File Creation
The MP3 creation command initiates a procedure that automatically writes MP3 files to the root directory of an MP3 player using an auto-incrementing naming system of Page 1, Page2, Page3...Page9999.
As a result, you don't need a screen reader to navigate a file save dialog and respond to multiple GUI controls to save your OCR output like you would with a standard Windows application.
Instead, we replace all of that with just a single key press (F3) that does everything for you automatically and even tells you when it's done!!
After you finish reading or converting your documents to MP3 files, you can easily shut down the program and return to the desktop by just pressing the F12 key.