[access-uk] Re: important problem with html and pdf files
- From: Ari Damoulakis <aridamoulakis@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:09:57 +0200
Oh thanks so much Edward, I think this might be what I'm looking for with jaws.
Ari
On 3/18/13, Edward Green <edward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Ari,
>
> Which screen reader are you using? If it's JAWS or Window-Eyes, have a look
> in their manuals/help files and see if place markers do what you want.
> They
> are typically used on web pages, but I've just tried setting one up in a
> pdf
> file using JAWS, closing and reopening the pdf, and the place marker was
> still there.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ed
>
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> On Behalf Of Ari Damoulakis
> Sent: 18 March 2013 21:08
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> Subject: [access-uk] important problem with html and pdf files
>
> Hi everyone
> Sorry I made that subject line, but I really need a solution to this
> problem, or need to know what I can do. By the way, thanks very much Kevin
> for the answer to the IPhone messaging problem, I eventually found the add
> to contacts button on sms numbers.
> Anway my problem is that, in my class, my work is either in long html
> documents or pdf documents. As a student I want to highlight or mark
> important passages so as to quickly get to them again when opening the
> document, or being able to skip from one important passage to another.
> In a text document one can put symbols at important passages to go to them,
> but I do not wish to save all these documents as text or word.tes, but I've
> just tried one in a pdf using JAWS, and it seems to work.
> My question is, is there a way to somehow mark important places in html and
> pdf files so one can navigate to them quickly? For example, I open my html
> document with Internet explorer, it would be great while I'm reading, when
> I
> find something important to somehow put a heading into it so I could next
> time just press h to get to that info again.
> The same with pdf documents. Is marking of these documents possible and how
> could it be done?
> Thanks very much
> Ari
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