[nabs-l] Reading PDF's in Firefox

[Mary Fernandez]

Hi Arielle,
Firefox is an awesome browser, but it doesn't like PDFs! Updating Jaws
will not help you at all. I'm running Jaws 13 and the latest version
of Firefox, but it just will not work. What I do is once the pdf is
opened, I save the page and then open it from my documents or wherever
you save it. Which is annoying, but it's also annoying having to find
that same webpage on Explorer for it to be opened.
I know that doesn't help much, but it's the only work around I've
heard of that works.
Mary

On 8/22/12, Arielle Silverman <arielle71 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> Speaking of PDF documents, I am having a problem reading PDF's with
> the Firefox browser and am wondering if any of you have found any
> solutions. When I go to a website that has a link to a PDF document,
> like a course website or a restaurant website with PDF menus, and I
> press enter to open the link to the PDF, after Adobe loads the file,
> JAWS says "Open embedded object button graphic" but pressing enter on
> this button, or left-clicking it, does absolutely nothing.
> Occasionally I have gotten the PDF to open after entering a bunch of
> random commands in frustration, but I haven't figured out how to
> reliably get JAWS to read the PDF embedded in a Firefox webpage. Any
> suggestions? I am using the latest version of Firefox but because I am
> cheap, JAWS 11. Do I need to upgrade JAWS in order to do this?
> Arielle
>
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