[NFBCS] Filling Out PDF Forms With Adobe Acrobat

[David Andrews]

It is actually fairly difficult to do a proper, accessible form, and 
most creators do not know how. Also, at least for me, the 
control-shift-5 command brings up the dialog, and there is an always 
do this checkbox, which doesn't stick for me, so I have to do the 
control-alt-5 thing with every document. More seem to be tagged lately though.

Dave

At 05:54 PM 10/31/2023, you wrote:
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>Curtis,
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>Is CONTROL-SHIFT-5 the same as the old CONTROL-K which I am still 
>able to use?  I did not know why, but I also noticed that one has to 
>infer reading order from document to have form fields read.  I also 
>noticed that not all form fields, such as check boxes, are in the 
>tab order.  I had to find them with the virtual cursor.  Is this new 
>behavior?  I haven't done that many PDF forms so don't know if this 
>is changed behavior or not.
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>Best regards,
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>Steve
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>From: NFBCS <nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Curtis Chong via NFBCS
>Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2023 3:59 PM
>To: 'NFB in Computer Science Mailing List' <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
>Cc: Curtis Chong <chong.curtis at gmail.com>
>Subject: [NFBCS] Filling Out PDF Forms With Adobe Acrobat
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>Greetings all:
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>I'd like to share a few tidbits I just picked up regarding the use 
>of Adobe's free Acrobat software to fill out properly-constructed PDF forms.
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>In prior versions of the Adobe Reader, you could adjust your 
>accessibility settings so that tags in documents would not be 
>ignored. In this way, whenever you opened up a properly-constructed 
>PDF form, JAWS would verbalize the form fields and even enable you 
>to enter information.
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>In the latest version of Adobe Acrobat, this setting has 
>disappeared. Thus, when I went to open up a PDF form document, JAWS 
>could not detect the form fields.
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>(parenthetically speaking, some of you have have noticed that the 
>traditional menus that we used to see in older versions of Adobe 
>Acrobat have disappeared. The only menu left is the File Menu, which 
>you can reach by pressing ALT+F after opening a PDF file._)
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>The solution is to open the PDF form document, press CTRL+SHIFT+5 to 
>bring up the Reading Preferences dialog, and then to choose the 
>"Infer reading order from document" option, which says it is the 
>recommended choice.
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>Try as I might, I could not find anything written up about this anywhere.
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>Warm regards,
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>Curtis Chong, Treasurer
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>National Federation of the Blind in Computer Science
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