NVDA handles PDF quite well.<br><br>First question, does she have Acrobat Reader installed? Other PDF-capable programs are not screen reader accessible. <br><br>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).<br clear="all">
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Dave M. Thomas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Dave.M.Thomas@studentlife.du.edu">Dave.M.Thomas@studentlife.du.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal">Hello!</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">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.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">When she tries to read PDFs the program will not read. Any suggestions?</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Dave</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Dave Thomas, Assistive Technology Specialist</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">University of Denver</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Denver, CO 80208</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Phone: <a href="tel:303-871-2269" target="_blank">303-871-2269</a></span></p>
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