[Athen] [EXT]Re: JAWS keyboard command for Page Labels in PDFs

[Robert Beach]

Karen,

If you're wanting to know what page you are on out of how many pages you can use JAWS+NUMPAD-3 to read the status bar. If you have other panes open such as the styles pane, this may not work.


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OK, neither keyboard command works. They both used to!
For both the NVDA and JAWS keyboard commands that are supposed to read Page Labels, neither works.
A workaround for JAWS is to press Ctrl + Shift + N and then Ctrl + B to give you the correct page X of Y.
BUT if Page Labels have not been implemented in the PDF, the page numbering will be wrong.
Note that Page Labels are the correct way to identify page numbers in a PDF so having this ability removed is not a good step forward.
At this point, I don't know if this is an Adobe PDF Editor/Reader issue or an issue with both screen readers.
Both of these should be documented keyboard commands!!!!!!! And they should work when Page Labels are implemented.!
Cheers, Karen

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Subject: JAWS keyboard command for Page Labels in PDFs

Afternoon Everyone!
I have the NVDA keyboard command for reading Page Labels in PDFs: NVDA + End.
In JAWS, JawsKey + Page Down used to read the Page Labels but it doesn't seem to do that anymore.
There is no documentation on the Freedom Scientific website or reference to reading the Page Labels on any third-party "how to access PDFs with JAWS" web pages.
Does anyone know what the keyboard command to read page Labels in JAWS is? It did exist!
Currently, pressing JawsKey + Page Down returns "See All" which it is getting from somewhere on the screen.
Cheers, Karen
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