[nabs-l] Reading PDF Documents with JAWS

Tue Sep 20 21:30:47 UTC 2011

Hi Nicole and everyone,

I used the RoboBraille service that I told you about in an 
earlier post to convert a PDF for school yesterday, and it
was really easy! Just send an email with the PDF (or whatever) 
attached and the file type you want to receive it in in the 
subject to convert at robobraille.org.  You will then get an email 
back from RoboBraille with the converted file attached in a 
matter of minutes.  Hope this helps!

Chris
 Chris Nusbaum

"The real problem of blindness is not the loss of eyesight.  The 
real problem is the misunderstanding and lack of education that 
exists.  If a blind person has the proper training and 
opportunity, blindness can be reduced to a mere physical 
nuisance." -- Kenneth Jernigan (President of the National 
Federation of the Blind, 1968-1986.)

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 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Nicole B.  Torcolini at Home" <ntorcolini at wavecable.com
To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list" 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:53:39 -0700
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Reading PDF Documents with JAWS

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"
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org
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

 "The real problem of blindness is not the loss of eyesight.  The 
real
 problem is the misunderstanding and lack of education that 
exists.  If a
 blind person has the proper training and opportunity, blindness 
can be
 reduced to a mere physical nuisance." -- Kenneth Jernigan 
(President of
 the National Federation of the Blind, 1968-1986.)

  Visit the I C.A.N.  Foundation online at: 
www.icanfoundation.info for
 information on our foundation and how it helps blind and 
visually
 impaired children in MD say "I can!"

 Sent from my BrailleNote

 ----- 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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