[nabs-l] Reading PDF Documents with JAWS

Nicole B. Torcolini at Home ntorcolini at wavecable.com
Sun Sep 18 23:29:34 UTC 2011


Unfortunately, there's no making JAWS read the PDF if it is a certain type. 
If you have a PDF that is a graphic of text, then you have to scan it or 
send off to a conversion website.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Justin Young" <jty727 at gmail.com>
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Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2011 11:34 AM
Subject: [nabs-l] Reading PDF Documents with JAWS


> Hello All,
>
> Hope you are doing well.  I have a question for you.  In my experience
> with pdf files it seems like JAWS is selective in which it wishes to
> read and those it wishes not to read.  Have any others experienced
> this?  How do we get the ones that don't want to be read to do so?  I
> must admit I don't know much about PDFs.
>
> Any suggestions, ideas, comments are appreciated.
>
> Justin
>
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