Hi Again Andy, Here are steps for Adobe settings changes for Adobe X & XI: Adobe Reader X:
You need to disable protected view first to get it to work well with Jaws. Do the following: 1. From either your desktop or start menu, press enter on Adobe. The Adobe window is now open, press control + K, to open preferences. Another way to get to preferences is after pressing enter on the Adobe shortcut, press Alt + E, for the edit menu, arrow up to preferences, & press enter. 3. When preferences opens you will be in a tree view and should be on the General page, if not arrow up or down until you have General highlighted. It is #4 of 29. Tab until you find a checkbox called enable protected mode at startup, uncheck it, choose yes on the warning you will get to continue. You need to look at 2 more settings so, tab until you have General highlighted again. 4. With General highlighted, press the letter I, until you have Internet highlighted. 5. Tab to, Display PDF in browser, if this box is checked press the spacebar to uncheck it. 6. Tab to connection speed combobox, arrow up / down for the setting that best matches your Internet Providers speed. 7. Tab to the okay button, press enter to close preferences & save your changes, & press Alt + F4 to close Adobe. Adobe XI: Note that there are links with the Security Enhanced section to explain the consequences of unchecking items there, and you may want to find out what they have to say. 1. After opening Adobe from your desktop or start menu shortcut, go into preferences with control-k. JAWS lands on an item in a tree view. If you have been here before, it will be the item you last opened. Arrow down to Security Enhanced. Note that this is the item below "Security." Then uncheck these 2 options, the 2nd option is not necessary to uncheck but, optional: Enable Protected Mode at startup, needs to be unchecked. Enable Enhanced Security, does not need to be unchecked. Note. When making changes in the Security Enhanced section, you will be told that Adobe needs to be restarted, but you can wait to finish the other changes first. 2. Launch the Edit menu, scroll down to the Accessibility submenu and open it. Scroll down to the Set-up Assistant and press enter. The Set-Up Assistant has five screens, but the only change you have to make is on the last, screen 5 of 5. Go through all the screens, pressing spacebar on "Next" in each instance, until you reach the fifth and final screen. Here, tab to the check box labeled "Display PDF documents in the web browser" and make sure it is unchecked. It may be checked by default. Then tab to the Okay button, press enter to save your changes & close. HTH Take Care. Mike This email was sent from my iBarstool. ----- Original Message ----- From: Andy Shields To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2014 8:16 AM Subject: [JAWS-Users] A PDF question Hi, listers, I'm using JAWS 15.9023 with Windows 7. I have an ongoing issue with PDF files, which will only display the top (address and menu bars) and bottom, but none of the actual, interior content of the window or file. Even this minimal amount of information is all I can get using the JAWS cursor; the PC cursor just registers the PDF file as "blank." I've tried using ShiftF10, or the numpad slash, to simulate a right mouse click, and this is all I get. These things used to work consistently when I had WindowEyes years ago, but I've had this problem with PDFs, either downloaded or e-mailed documents, for some time. At first I thought it was a function of some corrupted files that I was never able to delete, that seemed to be effecting the functioning of Adobe Reader here at my worksite. But we have recently upgraded from Windows XP to Windows 7, and changed from Adobe to FoxIt. (I admit to not knowing much about this program, but it should have allowed the document I linked to to be read easily in a straightforward way.) I had a sighted IT person here at work observing this, and he's usually pretty aware of how my setup is used and its capabilities, and neither of us has any idea how to resolve this. It's actually been more than a year since I've been able to get JAWS to read or access PDFs at all and, as I've tried to describe it, this seems to be a more general and consistent problem than I thought. Sorry for the long walk through all of this; my basic question is, am I missing some obvious steps that will get these PDFs to display properly. Is there a setting that needs to be changed, engaged or taken away? It's almost as though any files of this type are literally blocked, and since it is so consistent, I'm hoping the solution is something basic and obvious. I meant to add the specific information that, while using the JAWS cursor, down-arrowing took it directly from things at the top, with one more keystroke, to "64.22%" at the bottom. I just rmembered that, even when not reading PDFs, a similar thing often happens when I'm trying to use the JAWS cursor to read other parts of a webpage; it will say "100%" and "Done", at the bottom, but again, none of the actual "content" from within the window (or maybe frame would be better) is shown. So, this is even more basic; why is my JAWS not displaying things either within or around a window, which, I always thought, is part of what it's meant to do? If this is covered in some recent postings, I apologize; I try not to look at the daily digests until I'm done with work tasks, so I tend to get behind. I'd really appreciate any help you can give me. Andy 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/
