[Athen] NVDA Question

[Ken Petri]

NVDA handles PDF quite well.

First question, does she have Acrobat Reader installed? Other PDF-capable
programs are not screen reader accessible.

The other question to ask is, is the PDF tagged? If not, typically the AT
will launch Reader and attempt to create automatically a tag structure from
the document structure. However, if the original document is an image-based
PDF, you won't get any usable content (without an OCR-run first).

ken
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On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Dave M. Thomas <
Dave.M.Thomas at studentlife.du.edu> wrote:


> Hello!

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> I am working with a student who is starting out with NVDA. She can use it

> to read MS Word documents aloud and to navigate in the operating system.

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> When she tries to read PDFs the program will not read. Any suggestions?

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> Dave

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> Dave Thomas, Assistive Technology Specialist

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