Re: acrobat reader and jfw

  • From: "Stephen Faill" <stephen.faill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 17:40:53 +0100

when i change the option for reading to left to right top to bottom jaws will 
not read this document at all.

stephen
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Stephen Faill 
  To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 5:35 PM
  Subject: Re: acrobat reader and jfw


  certainly when i read the status line it is going from page to page but still 
seems to be skipping parts of the document.

  i will try and change the options when the untagged dialogue comes up and see 
what happens.

  stephen
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Cher Bosch 
    To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 5:29 PM
    Subject: Re: acrobat reader and jfw


    If the document has a multi-column layout, I often have to change the 
reading order to 'left to right, top to bottom'.  I wonder if there are columns 
which are being read non-consecutively.  If you read the status line, you can 
see if you really are skipping pages, or if the movement to the next page is 
working properly.  If you tell Adobe to deliver the entire document in that 
starting dialog, you can just read from beginning to end without ever worrying 
about pages.

    Cher



    >>> bcsarah.fan@xxxxxxxxx 08/11/06 12:06 PM >>>

    I think you can set up Acrobot to be more friendly with screen readers when 
you install it. it's not that great, but it helps, if only a bit. did you have 
that option presented to you? 

      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Stephen Faill 
      To: Jaws mailing list 
      Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 4:25 AM
      Subject: acrobat reader and jfw


      hello list.

      i recently installed adobe acrobat reader 7 and haven't made any changes 
to settings in it.

      this is the first time i have used an acrobat reader so am unsure exactly 
what i am doing.

      when i open up a pdf file a dialogue box appears saying that the file is 
untagged.

      i have various options and i keep them at the recommended ones and then 
hit enter on start.

      the document duly loads up and using my control key plus page up and down 
i can read the content.

      or so it seems.

      after the first page finishes i press control page down and it start to 
read the next, but it is as ifjaws has missed a section or paragraph of text as 
the second page doesn't seem to follow on from the first.

      now, are there any settings that i should change to let jaws work a 
little better with this version of acrobat reader or maybe i have missed a 
keystroke for the general reading of the document.

      all help is appreciated.

      stephen

Other related posts: