[access-uk] Re: Jaws and Reading PDF's
- From: "Richard Godfrey-McKay" <lists.godfrey-mckay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 22:58:05 -0000
Sam,
1. How about this link - which has some advice:
http://www.euroblind.org/resources/guidelines/nr/88#Portable_Document_Format
_PDF
2. Ultimately, of course, it's the job of your employer to ensure that
material sent to you is accessible to you - although I appreciate that it
may not always be easy to ask for this.
3. How about Abbeyy FineReader which does a good job of converting image
files (including most PDF files I've given it) into Word for you.
4. There are various online free PDf to txt conversion facilities, but I
can't find the one I think most people use at the moment.
Hope this may give you some useful things to try.
Good luck,
Richard
Richard Godfrey-McKay
Telephone: 01738-445 880
Mobile: 07791 452 593
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Subject: [access-uk] Jaws and Reading PDF's
Hi All
Looking for a bit of advice at work they are continuously sending out work
related documents as pdf's I am running win xp pro with jaws 7 and am having
real difficulty in getting jaws to read them. Am I right in thinking that
the pdf needs to be created in a particular way is there any guides I can
pass onto the people creating the pdf's to ensure they are accessible. Would
it help if I had a newer version of jaws software.
Did ask about getting a word version but was told they don't won to give out
word versions as they can be edited
Thanks
Sam
Sam Howie
Resource Worker: Service Modernisation
Glasgow City Council
Social Work Services
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