[BlindTlk] JAWS and PDF documents

[Jude DaShiell]

Adobe did that protected mode way back in 2013 and at the time this
knowledge wasn't available so me trying to do accessibility checks on
protected documents got frustrated.
Another absolute limitation on both adobe and jaws is the scanned
document quality.  If sighted people put a document into a pdf file that
wasn't original and had been copied about 20 times and the 20th copy had
been put into the pdf image not even jaws is going to be able to read
that document well even with the best OCR capabilities on the planet.

On Tue, 14 May 2019, Sherry Gomes via BlindTlk wrote:

> Date: Tue, 14 May 2019 11:35:28
> From: Sherry Gomes via BlindTlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
> To: Blind Talk Mailing List <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Sherry Gomes <sherry.gomes at outlook.com>
> Subject: Re: [BlindTlk] JAWS and PDF documents
>
> I think I know what's going on. Open up your adobe program. Press control K to bring up preferences, then hit the letter s three times. You should land on security enhanced. Tab once and I bet you will find a checkbox that says, enable protected mode at start up. Uncheck this box then tab to yes to verify. Tab or shift tab to okay and hit that. Then close adobe and open a file again. Jaws should read it now. It seems that adobe has enabled this protected mode by default, and it needs to be turned off before JAWS can read the file.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: BlindTlk <blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Danielle (Shives) Manke via BlindTlk
> Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2019 9:13 AM
> To: blindtlk at nfbnet.org
> Cc: Danielle (Shives) Manke <shives1 at myactv.net>
> Subject: [BlindTlk] JAWS and PDF documents
>
> Hi all,
> I have noticed over the last few days that JAWS isn't reading PDF documents. I have the latest versions of JAWS and Adobe Reader installed. Some of the documents I have tried to read have been read before with no problems, and I am not sure what has changed to make them no longer accessible. The OCR feature will read them, but I was previously able to read them without having to do that step. I am wondering if anyone else has had similar issues and if anyone has any suggestions? Thanks.
> Danielle
>
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