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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.<br><br>
Dave<br><br>
At 05:54 PM 10/31/2023, you wrote:<br>
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Curtis,<br><br>
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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.<br><br>
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Best regards,<br><br>
<br><br>
Steve<br><br>
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<b>From:</b> NFBCS <nfbcs-bounces@nfbnet.org> <b>On Behalf Of
</b>Curtis Chong via NFBCS<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 31, 2023 3:59 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'NFB in Computer Science Mailing List'
<nfbcs@nfbnet.org><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Curtis Chong <chong.curtis@gmail.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [NFBCS] Filling Out PDF Forms With Adobe Acrobat<br><br>
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Greetings all:<br><br>
<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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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.<br><br>
<br><br>
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.<br><br>
<br><br>
(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._)<br><br>
<br><br>
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.<br><br>
<br><br>
Try as I might, I could not find anything written up about this
anywhere.<br><br>
<br><br>
Warm regards,<br><br>
<br><br>
Curtis Chong, Treasurer<br><br>
National Federation of the Blind in Computer Science<br>
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