Esther, Thanks that is what I intended and stated incorrectly. I did try the voice in the reader and it was pretty much a drag, so I just stuck with Preview. It works for most my purposes, but for DRM content where you have to enter a user ID and/or password, it is incredibly painful and as best I recall I could not do it without sighted assistance. On Sep 28, 2010, at 3:35 PM, Esther wrote:
> 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!). >>> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
