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

[Nancy Coffman]

Convenient OCR was introduced in Jaws 13 oh

Nancy Coffman
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On May 21, 2013, at 11:10 PM, "Nicole Torcolini" <ntorcolini at wavecable.com> wrote:

> Convenient  OCR is a feature that comes with some of the newer versions of
> JAWS, 14 I think. You can have JAWS do an OCR of the screen and move around
> it to find the object that you want. Once on that object, you can use the
> JAWS commands to simulate a mouse click. It is mainly for when a window is a
> graphic rather than text. It is only meant for that moment, though; you
> cannot copy what has been OCR'ed.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jude DaShiell
> Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 8:31 PM
> To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Enable All Features in Acrobat was RE: office 2010
> accessibility question
> 
> 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.
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jude 
>> DaShiell
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 3:23 AM
>> To: nfbcs at nfbnet.org
>> Cc: gui-talk at nfbnet.org; fedaccessibility at yahoogroups.com
>> Subject: [nfbcs] office 2010 accessibility question
>> 
>> 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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>> ----- jude <jdashiel at shellworld.net> About to block another web 
>> browser version?
>> Ask yourself what Tim Berners-lee would do.
>> 
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