[gui-talk] Desperately need help to view and read .PDF documents

[Jude DaShiell]

You did try opening a pdf file after download and you did go through the 
accessibility screens and save your preferences right?  If so, you may 
simply be dealing with inaccessible pdf documents and when that's the 
case, you need to get with the authors to get them made accessible 
especially when dealing with password protected materials.  The other 
thing is, you have to turn on read aloud under the accessibility menu 
which is on the advanced tab too if it's not already enabled.   Once 
this is done, you might try reading a file and putting jaws to sleep for 
the duration.  Jaws is not capable of reading pdf files which is why 
adobe provided read aloud.  Have you or anyone else done a full 
accessibility check on these files before trying to read them?  If 
someone else did it you may want to duplicate their work except under 
full accessibility check in the advanced tab, check every possible box 
in the dialog before you start the check on a file.  It's possible 
whoever did the accessibility check failed on that step.  One or more 
problems with reading and you have an inaccessible pdf file.  In my 
entire career I have only had one instance in which a full accessibility 
check had no problems with a pdf file, so what's out in the wild is 
often hairy nasty and wild too.

On Sun, 24 Mar 2013, George Cassell wrote:

> Yes.  I've downloaded that several times, and can't get it to do anything 
> for me.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Humberto Avila" <avila.bert.humberto2 at gmail.com>
> To: "'Discussion of the Graphical User Interface,GUI Talk Mailing List'" 
> <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2013 10:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Desperately need help to view and read .PDF 
> documents
> 
> 
> Do you ave Adobe reader installed on your system? It's the program you use
> to read PDF files. Go to www.adobe.com and search for "reader"
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of George
> Cassell
> Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2013 10:04 PM
> To: gui-talk at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [gui-talk] Desperately need help to view and read .PDF documents
> 
> How can I read .    PDF documents?  I'm running Windows XP, JAWS 12.0,
> Outlook Express 6.0, and the latest version of Firefox.
> 
> No matter what I do, I cannot get any .PDF documents to display.  Please
> help!
> 
> -- George
> 
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Microsoft, windows is accessible. why do blind people need screen readers?