[NFBCS] PDF accessibility is crazy

[Michael McQuaid]

Tracy -

As someone trying to make pdfs accessible, I feel your pain. If you have
Adobe Acrobat Pro DC, you can "autotag" the document to make it more
accessible. "Autotag Document" is a menu subitem on the "Accessibility"
menu. If you just have Reader, you can try to add the document as an
attachment to a message in this thread and I can autotag it.

I'm running Adobe Acrobat Pro DC on Mac. If I click on About under the
Acrobat Pro DC menu item, it says it is "Continuous Release: Version
2020.006.20042. The accessibility menu appears on the right hand panel.

- Mick

On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 12:12 PM Curtis Chong via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
wrote:

> Tracy:
>
> Regarding Acrobat Reader DC, I suspect that the version you opened in
> Windows 7 is not the latest one available from Adobe. One strategy I have
> used when a PDF is open is to copy and paste the contents into a Microsoft
> Word window. My usual way of pasting in Word (text only) would not be good
> because you want to keep the links as links so that you can activate them.
>
> Given my many years of experiencing trying to decode PDF documents, Acrobat
> Reader DC seems for me to provide the most consistent (albeit not perfect)
> experience. When reading bank statements where all I want is the text, the
> best experience for me is to copy and paste the text into a stable (and
> readable) window in Microsoft Word.
>
> I hope this provides a bit more information and clarification to get you
> through the problem.
>
> Regards,
>
> Curtis Chong
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NFBCS <nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Tracy Carcione via
> NFBCS
> Sent: Monday, July 12, 2021 8:43 AM
> To: 'NFB in Computer Science Mailing List' <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Tracy Carcione <carcione at access.net>
> Subject: [NFBCS] PDF accessibility is crazy
>
> I'm taking a series of workshops this week, and all the access links are in
> a PDF.  I opened the document on 3 different machines in 4 different ways,
> but it only really worked on one.
>
> On my laptop, I tried opening it with Firefox andChrome, and neither worked
> well enough to use.
>
> In Adobe BC, I tried opening it on my old Windows 7 PC, and that sort of
> worked, but not great. But it does work OK on my Windows10 laptop with
> Adobe
> BC, thank Goodness.
>
> Why does accessibility have to be so complicated!
>
> I tried to figure out if my 2 machines are running different versions of
> Adobe BC, but can't find where it keeps the version#.
>
> If I download whatever Adobe I find onto my other laptop, is it likely to
> work, or is it only certain versions that work well?  The version that
> works
> is on my work laptop, so may be a pro version.
>
> Really, it's insane to have to try so many things to find the one that is
> accessible.
>
> Tracy
>
>
>
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