[jaws-uk] Re: SIGHT AND SOUND PDF DOCUMENTS
- From: susan mcdonald <susan_mcdonald52@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:26:51 +0100
I too, have to agree with you on this, I hate pdf and prefer text or html and
think we should be given the choice where pdf files are concerned
reguards
> From: drewdog101@xxxxxxxxx
> To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: SIGHT AND SOUND PDF DOCUMENTS
> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:49:42 +0100
>
> Hi Wendy and rest of List,
>>
>> I am running Jaws 9 (latest version) together with Adobe Reader 8. Having
>> clicked on the products brochure within the Sight and Sound site I find
>> that it opens and can be read by me.
>>
>> However I am not a big fan of PDF documents as, even with the
>> accessibility assistant within Adobe Reader, in my experience PDF
>> documents are more problematic to navigate around, using Jaws than are
>> word or HTML texts. In my view it is helpful if a site maintains both word
>> and/or HTML versions of documents as these are, in general more easily
>> navigable than are PDF documents.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Kevin
>> PS; I'm not suggesting that sites do not utilise PDF, merely that in
>> addition to this format that they, in addition maintain alternative
>> formats.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Wendy Sharpe"
>> To:
>> Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 4:30 PM
>> Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: SIGHT AND SOUND PDF DOCUMENTS
>>
>>
>>> Mervyn
>>>
>>> I was trying to open yours from IE 6 and within your website. I have
>>> successfully done this on other sites. I have also saved quite a few PDF
>>> files to my hard drive, and successfully read them after launching Adobe
>>> Reader 8. I also sometimes go through Windows Explorer, opening PDF
>>> files
>>> from there.
>>>
>>> I have reading settings from left to right, top to bottom, and to read
>>> the
>>> whole document.
>>>
>>> Wendy
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>>> On
>>> Behalf Of Mervyn Robertson
>>> Sent: 28 April 2008 16:26
>>> To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: SIGHT AND SOUND PDF DOCUMENTS
>>>
>>> Wendy
>>>
>>> We do take considerable care to ensure that all of our pdf documents are
>>> accessible. All of our documents are individually prepared and none of
>>> them are just scanned in as images.
>>>
>>> Could you let me know if you are opening the documents within your
>>> browser or if you are opening pdf files that you have downloaded to your
>>> machine?
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Mervyn
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>>> On Behalf Of Wendy Sharpe
>>> Sent: 28 April 2008 15:15
>>> To: 'Jaws'
>>> Subject: [jaws-uk] SIGHT AND SOUND PDF DOCUMENTS
>>>
>>> I was looking on Sight and Sound's website, and tried to view a couple
>>> of PDF files, the brochure and a document information sheet. I was
>>> surprised to find that both these documents were inaccessible.
>>>
>>> I have quite a number of PDF files on my computer, many of them
>>> instruction manuals. I have just checked that I can still read some of
>>> them, so it isn't anything I have done to alter the settings.
>>>
>>> As we all know, inaccessible PDF documents usually means that they have
>>> been scanned in as images rather than being typed in as text. I am
>>> surprised that Sight and Sound, a company supplying specialist equipment
>>> and software to blind and partially sighted people, should produce
>>> inaccessible documents. I would be interested to know what they have to
>>> say about this.
>>>
>>> If anyone else on this list can access the documents I mentioned,
>>> perhaps they could let us know.
>>>
>>> Wendy
>>>
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