If you are using special screen reading software you may need to convert PDF documents to web pages (HTML pages) or text (ASCII) files. Adobe provides a free service for converting PDF files to HTML or ASCII text which can then be read by many screen reading programs. See the heading Accessing scanned Acrobat documents above for help with scanned PDFs.
To convert a PDF to HTML using the free Adobe service: . Click on the link and open the PDF you wish to convert. . Go to Adobe's website at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/access_onlinetools.html and copy and paste the URL of the PDF document into the online form. . Adobe will return it to your browser as an HTML document. Alternatively you can mail the URL of the PDF file to Adobe: . Click on the link and open the PDF you wish to convert. . Copy and paste the URL of the PDF document into the body of an e-mail to: o [email protected] (for conversion to plain text) or o [email protected] (for conversion to HTML). . Adobe will mail back the converted PDF file. You can submit multiple URLs in a single email. For more information on PDF document accessibility go to Adobe's website at http://access.adobe.com/ Accessibility and PDF files If you are vision impaired, go to Adobe's screen-reader compatible download page. You may also find it helpful to download the Adobe Access plug-in which supports Windows text reading programs. For more information on PDF document accessibility go to Adobe's website at http://access.adobe.com/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
