[access-uk] Fw: [dolphinusers] Adobe 7 Tips
- From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 13:41:24 +0100
Thought those here might like to read this forwarded from the
Dolphin users' list. What Paul has to say I guess would go for
the other screen readers too.
HTH.
Ray
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Holliman"
Hi Guys!
Happy Easter to one and all - hope you're not getting chocolate
all over
your keyboards/braille displays!!
Have just been catching up with the Adobe thread and thought I'd
offer a
couple of tips that I've been finding as I use Adobe 7
extensively to read
PDF documents with Sn. Adam posted a tip on this list some weeks
ago, and
his comments prompted me to experiment with the reader a bit with
documents
with which I was having some difficulty. I'm assuming that you've
already
let the accessibility stuff do its thing with a document when you
first open
it and that you find that it doesn't read correctly in Auto VF.
1. From the Help menu, go to the Accessibility Assistant.
Normally, the
Adobe default is to deliver the document to the screen reader as
"preferred
reading order recommended". Try changing this to "left to right,
top to
bottom". If you remember, Adam did warn us that by doing that,
we'll lose
field names in forms etc so don't set it as your preferences
default, but if
your document is a plain book such as a user manual, I've found
that the
reading order often gets sorted out properly.
2. In many cases, I've found it best to tell Adobe 7 to deliver
the entire
document instead of just the single page. This has worked
particularly well
for me when I've wanted to scroll around a large document quickly
and use
Document Read on a section of the document.
3. In the Accessibility Assistant, there is a checkbox called
something like
"override tagged documents" which by default is unticked. The
impression I
get from a friend who is an expert in Adobe publishing is that,
if the
author has correctly used tags, we wouldn't want to override
these as they
describe the structure of the document which Sn can then take
advantage of.
But if the tags haven't been correctly implemented, or not
implemented at
all, I have found that on occasions it has produced better
results to tick
this checkbox thereby choosing to override tagging.
In summary, therefore, always remember that the settings you use
need to be
on a document by document basis I'm afraid. I know many would
love to blame
Adobe (smile), but often the results depend on how the author has
created
the document, so you have to be willing to do a bit of fiddling
at times to
get best results. Having said all this, I have to say that I'm
generally
getting much better results from Adobe 7 with Sn than I was using
previous
versions with the accessibility plug-ins.
Paul.
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