[nfbcs] Enable All Features in Acrobat was RE: office 2010 accessibility question

Jude DaShiell jdashiel at shellworld.net
Wed May 22 03:31:19 UTC 2013


I can try using the jaws cursor didn't do that just yet.  What's 
convenient ocr?

How is that even done and with what tool? On Tue, 21 May 2013, Nicole 
Torcolini wrote:

> Per activating the enable all features button in Acrobat, have you tried
> using the JAWS cursor and/or convenient  OCR? No, I do not like using these
> features of JAWS, but I do not consider software to be completely
> inaccessible if they can be used.
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> My employer is deploying office 2010 with all protection features enabled
> and that makes what documents you write protected.  The same has been done
> with latest version of acrobat.  When it was done with the latest version of
> acrobat, it made the enable all features button invisible to jaws once a
> document was opened and jaws couldn't read the document but did read the
> document's title and it became impossible to set up and run an accessibility
> check on that same document.  The tools->accessibility I was able to do then
> jaws went non-verbal and so did the focus 80 display.  The worse problem is
> that read outloud won't work with protected documents in pdf form.  All of
> this is being done for security reasons.  The Chinese have been getting into
> my employer's systems and modifying files regularly.  So what I need to know
> about office 2010 is if jaws is able to read a document that is protected
> and sent to me for reading, acrobat is already a lost cause.  If protected
> documents cannot be read, it may be necessary for me to find another
> employer that doesn't use this technology.
> 
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