[nabs-l] Reading PDF Documents with JAWS

[Nicole B. Torcolini at Home]

Chris, and everyone else on this list:

If a PDF is not accessible, it is not accessible. If you open a PDF in 
Acrobat, it will either automatically process it or give you the processing 
options dialog. If it goes straight to the blank document, then there is, to 
the best of my knowledge, nothing else that can be done in Acrobat to make 
it accessible. You either have to send it off to a conversion site or use 
some kind of internal scanning program, such as Kurzweil.

Nicole

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Nusbaum" <dotkid.nusbaum at gmail.com>
To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list" 
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Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 1:04 PM
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Reading PDF Documents with JAWS


> 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
>
> Chris Nusbaum
>
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> Sent from my BrailleNote
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Patrick Molloy <ptrck.molloy at gmail.com
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
> 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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