[blindLaw] Adobe and jaws

[Kelby Carlson]

Laura,

Are you using Adobe Acrobat to do OCR on image-based PDFs? I attempted
this at my last place of employment with pretty unimpressive results,
so I typically use FineReader to get the job done, with mixed success
depending on the nature of the document.

I occasionally encounter a similar problem with NVDA, which I have
come to prefer over JAWS, but usually only when using CTRL+Page Down.



On 7/24/19, Laura Wolk via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> I'll try but that might not be possible given my employer.
>
> On 7/24/19, Rahul Bajaj <rahul.bajaj1038 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If possible, I’d be grateful if you could keep me in the loop in any
>> advocacy effort that you might initiate to get this issue rectified. It
>> was
>> a significant impediment for me last academic year, and I would like to
>> help
>> in getting it addressed.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>> On Jul 24, 2019, at 6:05 PM, Laura Wolk <laura.wolk at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Perfect. Thanks, Rahul!
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>>> On Jul 24, 2019, at 7:56 AM, Rahul Bajaj <rahul.bajaj1038 at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I may have been using 2018 at the time. But I have confirmed that the
>>>> problem does not go away with updating jaws.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> R
>>>>
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>
>>>>> On Jul 24, 2019, at 4:45 PM, Laura Wolk <laura.wolk at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Rahul,
>>>>>
>>>>> My recollection is that you weren't using the latest version of Jaws.
>>>>> Is
>>>>> that not correct?
>>>>> I am autotagging and recognizing the documents within Adobe myself, so
>>>>> I
>>>>> don't think that's the problem.
>>>>>
>>>>> Laura
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Jul 24, 2019, at 7:07 AM, Rahul Bajaj <rahul.bajaj1038 at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Laura,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You might recall that I had complained about this when our track
>>>>>> changes conversation was underway. This has become a huge problem. I
>>>>>> have corresponded with the head of adobe accessibility, one Robert
>>>>>> something. He attributes this to pdfs being improperly tagged, but
>>>>>> that
>>>>>> does not explain why this problem is suddenly surfacing now. Vispero
>>>>>> says that adobe is responsible for this.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> One workaround is to go to open with and select word and the doc will
>>>>>> open as a word document. For many docs, however, jaws thinks they have
>>>>>> no content when this is done. So then you have to view them as html
>>>>>> documents as email attachments.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Jul 24, 2019, at 3:33 PM, Laura Wolk via BlindLaw
>>>>>>> <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> All,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I am using Adobe far more frequently than I have in the passed, and
>>>>>>> either I am doing something wrong, or Jaws is far less stable with
>>>>>>> Adobe than it used to be.  Does anyone else have the issue, using the
>>>>>>> latest version of Jaws, of Jaws randomly losing its focus and
>>>>>>> flipping
>>>>>>> to other parts of the document?  This has been frequently happening
>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>> me, both when using the arrows/page up/down to navigate and with
>>>>>>> using
>>>>>>> say all.  Again, I'm only interested in experiences with the latest
>>>>>>> version of Jaws.  But if you are having this experience, please let
>>>>>>> me
>>>>>>> know at your earliest convenience and I will try getting it
>>>>>>> addressed.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Laura
>>>>>>>
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Kelby Carlson