[nabs-l] Reading PDF documents with jaws

[christopher nusbaum]

RoboBraille.org.

Chris Nusbaum

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> On Oct 19, 2013, at 12:05 PM, justin williams <justin.williams2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> What is that robo braille internet address?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Dan Burke
> Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2013 11:49 AM
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Reading PDF documents with jaws
>
> 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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