Hi Fernando. Thanks for the detailed and thoughtful response. I knew about the Firefox adobe viewer. Unfortunately I'm not even getting to that point. While other PDFs will open in it, Adobe, Qread or the programme of my choice, this one causes an alert about a popup window to appear. I can't seem to get JAWS to focus on this little alert box, or whatever it is. I hear "alt-o for options" aand "click to close this message". I then press alt-o, but nothing happens. I'm just about at the point of getting my sighted girlfriend to look at the screen for me.
-----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Fernando Gregoire Sent: Monday, August 14, 2017 8:51 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Trying to get firefox to download a form and feeling bemused Hi! Since some versions ago, Firefox includes its own PDF viewer by default despite the possibility of using the Adobe's one if you want. As a result, when you open a PDF, you have to press the Download button to download it; this button is in the viewer's page, so you can quickly find it by pressing the JAWS quick key navigation b (for button); if the Download button does not appear, sometimes it is necessary to press the Tools button first. I prefer, however, to view the download dialog when activating a PDF link instead of a previous viewer. To do this in Firefox press ALT+T to open the Tools menu, select Options, and in the first list box choose Applications. Tab to the search box and type PDF, then press ENTER and tab to the result list. When you find the mimetype for PDF files, press TAB once more to go to a combo box where you can choose the Ask Me Always option and press ENTER. Exact options names may vary, because even in English Firefox is available in multiple variants (U.S., British, South African and perhaps Australian). Hope it helps! -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of JM Casey Sent: Monday, August 14, 2017 6:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [JAWS-Users] Trying to get firefox to download a form and feeling bemused Hello folks. I'm usually pretty good at this stuff, but I'm stumped for the moment and maybe someone here could offer a suggestion. I'm trying to download a direct deposit form from my bank. This is a pdf file. I mostly just need some of the info from the form and may not actually be filling it out online. At any rate, I am using Firefox, JAWS 18 and Windows 10. When I click on the link to the form, it is supposed to open a pDF in the Adobe viewer, perhaps in its own window. JAWS reads a message that Firefox has blocked the website from opening a popup window, and I hear it say "alt-o for options", and also "click to close this message". Obviously, I want the file to open. I've come across dialogues like this before, such as the standard file download one, and don't generally have a problem with them. However, here, pressing alt-o doesn't seem to do a damn thing. I can't re-click the link at all; if I try doing it again, I don't think that initial alert even pops up . not until I re-log-in to the bank site. I've tried saving the link to my drive, but it's just an html file that probably generates a part of the pdf content, and I can't access it this way. Any ideas? Why am I not able to interact properly with this dialogue box? For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ --- El software de antivirus Avast ha analizado este correo electrónico en busca de virus. https://www.avast.com/antivirus 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/
