Hello Marcelo,
Although it is possible to use Adobe Reader to read PDF files under
VoiceOver control, I don't know of any VoiceOver user who prefers to
use Adobe Reader over Preview (or another third party software called
Skim that goes beyond Preview's capabilities by adding annotation
features). Almost everyone who has switched to VoiceOver comments on
how much nicer the experience is reading PDFs with VoiceOver's native
apps. (Scott may be thinking of Adobe Acrobat Professional in his
reply about accessibility. It is true that books encoded with Adobe's
digital rights management cannot be read with Adobe's software and
screen readers, but they do have Adobe Reader for non-protected PDF
documents.)
If you really want to try using Adobe Reader instead of Preview, I can
dig out my notes. Adobe Reader is sufficiently unintuitive that I
have to keep a record of the commands. It uses text to speech rather
than VoiceOver's interactive controls. You also need to check the
right menus for the controls, because the speed controls for text to
speech speaking rate are set within the app, and the system text to
speech speaking rates are bypassed. I ended up having to read through
most of its rather complex menu structure. There's a "Read Out Loud"
command under the View menu that you'll need to use. Again, unlike
the case with Preview you have more limited control.
And as Scott said, Firefox is not accessible with VoiceOver.
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
On Sep 28, 2010, at 08:15, Scott Howell wrote:
Firefox is not accessible at this time. I believe there is someone
working on this, but for now it is Safari pretty much. I believe
there are other browsers such as Opera, but I am not sure how well
that works and others can comment. Preview is your only option for
PDFs at this time. Adobe has decided the Mac platform does not have
a sufficient number of users to invest time in making their products
accessible. Well ok, that is what I gather from things I have read,
but again, others may have more information that is not available to
me.
On Sep 28, 2010, at 12:23 PM, marcelo wrote:
Hello everybody!
I am testing Voice Over, and have a lot of questions! ...
1) Anybody knows where can I find a serious report about testing this
application? ...
2) I think Firefox is not accessible with Voice Over, but what about
"Adobe Reader" to read PDF files with Voice Over? ... or must I read
PDF with PREVIEW application while I using Voice Over? ...
thanks at all (and sorry for my English!).
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