[nabs-l] Reading PDF documents with jaws

[Dan Burke]

1. checking accessibility settings is important, as described previously.

2. when that doesn't fix it, you can try going to the instructor for the source document, which hopefully is something like MS word, or
3.  Try open book, kurzweil or robo-Braille. Remember that these options involve OCR of the document, so it may solve the reading issue, but it is not reading the PDF text as you did in adobe.  It is doing OCR and producing  a new doc which may have some OCR errors.

Dan


Dan Burke - Sent from iPhone

> On Oct 19, 2013, at 7:02 AM, "David Andrews" <dandrews at visi.com> wrote:
> 
> Part of what you say is true -- the steps you give should be taken to optomize the way that JAWS and Acrobat Reader work together.  However, there can be problems in the way in which a PDF was created, that your steps won't, and can't fix, the previously mentioned short lines, run together words etc.  They are caused by the program that actually created the PDF.
> 
> Dave
> 
> At 02:32 AM 10/19/2013, you wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>  The problems between Jaws and .pdf-s are solvable. Acrobat reader has special settings for accessibility that seems hasn't been made when the program has been installed.
>>  How to solve that?
>> 1. Open any .pdf document
>> 2. Open the menus and press right arrow to reach the edit menu.
>> 3. Press twice the up arrow to reach Accessibility subMenu.
>> 4. Press down arrow to hear "Set up assistant".
>> 5. Press enter and go through the screens and set up your preferred settings.
>> Note: If you set the program to read the entire document, have in mind that the large documents will made you wait, showing the message "Alert: document being processed".
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Dzhovani
> 
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