Hi Travis, Earle, Zack, Anne, and Others, Some PDFs for official tax forms, visa applications, etc. require using Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader, both to fill in forms and to read the documents. I'd have to check my old off-list mail, but I remember this came up two years ago on list. I think that to read those forms, which were UK tax forms, I ended up either having to do a screen capture or export to TIFF and then OCR with ABBYY FineReader Express, because even though they were blank forms they had some kind of protection that prevented VoiceOver from reading things. The normal, somewhat clunky and horrible, text-to-speech controls of Adobe Reader didn't work here. However, I was able to read the contents -- easiest done with Adobe Acrobat 8 for the mac that came free with an old scanner and the export to TIFF, then OCR, and sent the files back to the poster. I couldn't fill in those forms, though, and in those cases I couldn't read the PDFs directly. Those files weren't set to open in Preview, and required usi ng the Adobe software.
I don't know of an accessible way to fill out PDF forms, though, on the Mac using VoiceOver. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Apr 25, 2013, at 12:06 PM, Travis Siegel <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Apr 25, 2013, at 10:59 AM, Isaac Hebert wrote: > >> PDFs arenot accessible with voiceover at this time. > This is a blatent lie. Pdfs are completely accessible on te mac with > voiceover, as long as it's a real pdf, and not a scanned image of a page that > was put into a pdf file. I don't know who told you pdfs were not accessible, > but whoever it was needs to be smacked. > Filling out pdfs may not be doable, but reading them certainly can be done, > and is done regularly by many vo users. I just spent the last 7 days reading > 50+ books in pdf form, and every single one worked just fine. > Please do not spread nonsense before checking to see if it's true. > > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
