[nabs-l] Reading PDF Documents with JAWS

[Chris Nusbaum]

Hi Patrick,

I have Acrobat, but it doesn't convert.  Do I need to do 
something in Acrobat to get it to work? Should it automatically 
convert, or do I need to set some kind of setting in Acrobat to 
tell it to convert automatically?

Chris

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 ----- Original Message -----
From: Patrick Molloy <ptrck.molloy at gmail.com
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list 
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Date sent: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 20:09:37 -0400
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Reading PDF Documents with JAWS

Justin,
What you want to do is get yourself a copy of Adobe Acrobat for 
your
computer.  Then, when you've got one of those PDF's that isn't
accessible, Adobe will convert it for you.  Otherwise, JAWS will 
just
read the thing as "Blank Document." I speak from experience.
Patrick

On 9/18/11, David Andrews <dandrews at visi.com> wrote:
 It really has more to do with PDF's than JAWS.  There are many
 different ways to create PDF's, and some of them produce more
 accessible documents then others.  It is also possible to alter 
a PDF
 after it is created, to make it more accessible, but this is 
work for
 someone who knows how to do it.

 Dave

 At 01:34 PM 9/18/2011, you wrote:
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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