If both MAGic and Adobe Reader try to smooth the text it can cause the screen not to display as well as it could. Therefore, if you use MAGic or any other programs that use their own smoothing, you should make sure the check box for Disable Text Smoothing is checked. This is one page where the instructor recommends not using the default settings. The first group of radio buttons has been set for assistive technology to only look at 50 pages by default. The three choices are:.
NOTE: Even though it may take a few seconds longer to load the entire document at once, this is needed if you intend to look for things like links or headings in the entire document for information. Therefore, if you frequently deal with PDF documents that are larger than 50 pages you may want to change this to the option that reads "Read the entire document at once. Go ahead through the next page of the Accessibility Setup Assistant and leave any settings as they are.
This is a page document. How long did the document take to open? About 2 seconds on my computer. What do you hear? No links. Therefore, if you frequently deal with PDF documents that are larger than 50 pages you may want to change this to the option that reads "Read the entire document at once.
Go ahead through the next page of the Accessibility Setup Assistant and leave any settings as they are. This is a page document. How long did the document take to open? About 5 seconds on my computer. What do you hear? No links. No headings. Go to page How many links and headings do you hear?
Try using the list of links and list of headings here. This time choose the second radio button, "Read the entire document at once," and press ENTER a couple of times to finish with the Assistant. What happens? This is the keystroke to reopen the last file you viewed in most programs like Adobe Reader, Microsoft Word, and so on.
Time it if you want to. Alert: document being processed. Once the document has been processed, JAWS announces the number of links and headings. How many are there in the entire document? It may take a little longer to open the list of links or to gather information in large PDF documents, but it may also be necessary to change this setting to allow you to find all of the information you need in a timely fashion.
When you first install Acrobat Reader 10 an option called Protected Mode is turned on by default. Perform the following steps to turn off Protected Mode in Acrobat Reader Tagging a PDF file improves the accessibility of the document, indicating the reading order and improving navigation, particularly for longer, more complex documents. It is also possible to add alternate text descriptions ALT text to graphics appearing in tagged PDF documents and more. With Adobe Reader when you open a PDF document that is not tagged, a dialog box appears, asking if you want it to add tags to the document.
When this happens you are given the ability to choose from different reading orders and reading modes. Can you read this document?
A dialog box opens giving you a summary of how the document is set up. For an untagged document, you may get something like the following:. Document authors can secure PDF documents to the point that they cannot be read by screen readers. This is not a default setting, and authors have to deliberately change this when creating their documents. However, you may find such documents out there. This is found in the password security - settings part of the document properties of Adobe Acrobat Pro.
The default is a check box that is checked, called "Enable text access for screen reader devices for the visually impaired.
What happens when you try to read it? JAWS says "alert, protection failure. JAWS announces "This is a secure document. Selection is not allowed. In the Adobe Reader File menu there is a choice called Properties. On the Security page of this dialog box you find such things as whether Content Extraction for Accessibility is allowed, as well as if printing, copying, and other things are allowed.
The Document Properties dialog box is a multi-page dialog box. In this example, there are fields with read-only text. Press TAB to move through them. There is also quite a bit of other useful information in the dialog box. It is called static text, also read-only, where the normal PC cursor cannot move.
So, how do you read it? If you have participated in some of our prior webinars, you know you can route the JAWS cursor to the PC cursor and begin reading it with the mouse pointer. That captures the text of any window, including dialog boxes, and puts it into the virtual viewer.
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