Joanne, I have discovered that some difficult Adobe documents can be opened with Googgle Chrom, the internet browser. How I access the adobe document is save the document to my documents. Then when I want to read it, I press the application key and down arrow to "open with" and press enter. I then have Adobe DC, google chrome and Edge listed to use. On the google chrome item, I press enter and patiently wait while Google opens and prepares the document for reading. When Edge begins to work with Jaws, that may be another option for us to read Adobe documents. If you have the K1000 product, this program can open many adobe documents or convert the document into a text document. In this instance, I would save the adobe document as noted above, and when I get to the document in my list of documents I want to open, I press the applications key and down arrow to a choice called ""recognize with Kurzweil automatically" and press enter. The document is then converted into a rich text format which can be read by Word. In this instance, the document is converted and saved in the same folder the original adobe document was accessed. In this case, MS word opens the document in rich text format. I have also included below, some tips on setting up Adobe I have gathered from various lists. John Tip 1 Setting up adobe to open in a separate window You can set up Adobe to open PDF files in a separate window from IE, which fellow lister Gerald explained more or less as follows:
In Adobe Reader, go to the Edit menu (alt-e) and arrow up to the Accessibility submenu. Select Set-up Assistant. Control-tab several times. On page 5 of 5, the last page, of the Set-up Assistant is a check box labeled "Display PDF documents in the web browser." It should be unchecked so that the web page is processed directly by Adobe Reader. Tip 2 Below is information received from Freedom Scientific to help you get Adobe Reader working. A. Using the Accessibility Set Up Assistant When you launch a PDF the first time, the accessibility set up assistant opens. If the accessibility wizard has already run, do the following to open it: 1. Press ALT+E to open the Edit menu. 2. Press Y to select Accessibility submenu. 3. Press ENTER on Set Up Assistant. The first page of this five page dialog box opens. The default choice is fine, press ENTER to move to the next page. 4. On the second page you can change things if you wish, but by default it is OK. Press ENTER to move to page three. 5. On the third page you can change things if you wish, but by default it is OK. Press ENTER to move to page four. 6. On the fourth page, if you want to use the list of links, list of headings, and the JAWS find command so on to access long documents, change the radio button from "For large documents, only read the currently visible pages" to "Read the entire document at once." If you do not make this change, in long documents JAWS only sees the links and headings on the current page. Additionally, JAWS can only search the current page with the JAWS find command. If you do select read the entire document at once, it may take a few seconds longer to process large documents, but it is worth it to be able to see the links and headings in the entire document, or to search the entire document with the JAWS find. 7. Press ENTER to move to page five of the Set Up Assistant. 8. If the check box for Reopen documents to the last viewed page is checked, you may want to uncheck this. It is a personal preference. TAB through until you reach the check box for "Display PDF documents in the web browser," and uncheck it. 9. Press ENTER to activate the Done button. B. Additional changes in Adobe Reader XI preferences. 1. Press CTRL+K to open the Adobe Reader XI preferences. 2. In the Categories list on the left side of the dialog box, choose Accessibility. 3. Press TAB to move to the item, Show Portfolios in Files mode (not checked by default) - check this. 4. Press TAB to move back to the Categories list and choose Security (Enhanced). 5. Press TAB to move to Enable Protected Mode at startup (checked by default) - uncheck this. 6. Press TAB to move to the OK button, and activate it with the SPACEBAR. NOTE: The option to view PDF documents in the browser is no longer found in the Preferences. You must use the Set Up Assistant to find this. See Tip 1 above. __,_._,___ -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of joanne Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2017 8:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [JAWS-Users] PDF files won't read at all I don't know if Adobe Reader is not installed properly, and unfortunately I can't find a good converter except Docuscan which is way costly. Is another Adobe version more accessible, or is there something I should check or uncheck as far as accessibility is concerned? Or should I set more graphics or some other helpful way of reading that may be listed under configuration manager? Thanks. Joanne For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
