When I am using Firefox, one of two things happens with PDFs:

1. I get the Save/Open dialog when I press enter on a PDF link. If focus 
doesn't go to this dialog automatically, I press F6 to get there. 
Pressing enter on Open usually launches Adobe Reader.

2. I am able to read the PDF in Firefox when I press enter on a PDF 
link. I'm not sure why this happens as opposed to launching Adobe. I 
just tried with a couple of files, and they all opened with Adobe. 
anyway, when I am able to read the files in Firefox, They take a few 
seconds to load. One or two pages only takes a second or two, but as 
files get longer, the loading time does too. There are some buttons near 
the top of the page as I arrow down with the screen reader. They're 
things like Download and Zoom. Arrowing past them takes me to the 
document, but again, if it hasn't finished loading, I just find the 
buttons or only a line or two of text. I think the easiest way to read 
is with the say-all command. Pressing enter on Download does 
download/save the file to my computer, but I think I need to wait for 
the file to finish loading.

Both Jaws and NVDA work with either method. I remember using both 
methods in Windows 7, but that was a couple of years ago.


    VICUG-L is the Visually Impaired Computer User Group List.
Archived on the World Wide Web at
    http://listserv.icors.org/archives/vicug-l.html
    Signoff: [log in to unmask]
    Subscribe: [log in to unmask]