As an assistive technology worker, I say it's high time that the disability
community start sueing to prevent federal and state government from using
PDF files that simply do not work for the blind.
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Poehlman" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 5:56 PM
Subject: Re: Jaws and PDF files


> in other words, follow the signs on:
> http://access.adobe.com
> that point to the accessible acrobat reader.
>
> You may still have trouble using acrobat reader in the way you describe
> as there are conflicts between jaws navigation keys for ie and those of
> acrobat reader so I suggest you right click the link and choose save
> arget as and open it in acrobat reader directly for best results.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Loretta Guarino" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 5:27 PM
> Subject: Re: Jaws and PDF files
>
>
> Alan,
> The pop-up message makes it sound as if you have downloaded the minimal
> Reader instead of the Adobe Acrobat Reader with Accessibility. (The
> MakeAccessible plug-in is for authors who are trying to improve the
> accessibility of their PDF files, and it doesn't help Adobe Acrobat
> Reader 5.1
> accessibility.)
>
> Try downloading the version at
>
> http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobatreader/win/5.x/5.1/AcroRead
> er51_ENU_full.exe
>
> Loretta
>
>
>
> > Hello EASI People,
> >
> > A colleague and I are trying to access PDF files using JAWS in
> Internet
> > Explorer. We have JAWS 4.5, and have downloaded and installed the
> latest
> > version of Acrobat Reader. (For good measure, we also downloaded and
> installed
> > the MakeAccessible plug-in!)
> >
> > So far, JAWS has not been able to make head or tails of any PDF file,
> > including those on the IRS web site that are supposed to be
> accessible. In
> > fact, several times we have seen a pop up message indicating that
> there is no
> > screen reader support.
> >
> > Is there something we are missing?
> >
> > Alan
> >