Carol,
Files created using Distiller create flat files, with no interactivity. They
may be repaired, using tedious methods in Acrobat. It is much better to create
accessible publications using techniques that take into consideration the
entire design and workflow to minimize repairs.
True accessibility is accomplished through PDF tags. That is where screen
reader software that people with disabilities use looks for content. One of
those is JAWS, much more sophisticated tool than Adobe Acrobat Read Out Loud
feature.
I recently posted an article specifically on accessibility in FrameMaker at
http://jetsetcom.net/uncategorised/building-adobe-framemaker-documents-for-accessibility.html
Distiller is print production centric, as it uses PostScript that drives
printing devices. There are newer methods that give better results, when focus
is on creating PDF files that are posted on line, thus required to be
accessible.
Best regards,
Urszula Witherell
www.jetsetcom.net | www.trainingonsite.com
301.524.3165
Sent from iPad
On Dec 11, 2013, at 12:21 PM, Carol J. Elkins celk...@awrittenword.com
wrote:
After I emailed this yesterday, I tested the PDF on my laptop (also running
Acrobat 11 Pro on Windows 7), and the Read Out Loud function works fine. So
the problem must be with the Acrobat installation on my desktop CPU. I've run
the Repair feature to no avail. It isn't worth uninstalling and reinstalling
Acrobat since I can accomplish the task on my laptop.
However, one of the folks who kindly responded to me off-list made some
comments about PDF accessibility that I'm interested in seeing discussed. She
wrote: I am noticing a major flag in your post: were created in Acrobat
Distiller 11 using the default Press job option settings. You have a few
things against you... Distiller should not be used when creating accessible
documents. Files should be converted to PDF. It may sound confusing, but the
PDF created by PS Distiller is very different than converted one. Acrobat
Read Out Loud is very rudimentary and you really should not use it for
testing your document.
Since I am of the School of Dov Isaacs and always print to postscript and
then distill to get my PDFs, the idea that I shouldn't distill to get
accessible PDFs is new to me. What are other people's thoughts?
Carol
Last July, I posted this question to the Acrobat Community and got nowhere.
So I'm asking here in hope that I can find someone who has had this problem
and was able to fix it.
I'm using Acrobat XI Pro (fully updated to 11.0.05) on Windows7 (fully
patched). When I try to use the Read Out Loud feature on a PDF, Acrobat shuts
down. I am able to turn on (activate) the Read Out Loud feature, but when I
select Read to End of Page or Read This Document, Acrobat crashes. PDFs are
version 1.6 (Acrobat 7.x). They were created in Acrobat Distiller 11 using
the default Press job option settings. The documents are 100% accessible and
are fully tagged.
I have been unable to use Read Out Loud since I upgraded from Acrobat 9 Pro
last January. I've read dozens of articles on how to prepare your PDFs for
accessibility but this PDF is straight text--no tables, captions, etc. Just
text. No complicated reading order. So for the life of me I can't figure out
what to do to get the thing to read to me. I never had a problem before
Acrobat 11 and I've never had to do anything to prepare the PDF.
Help!
Carol
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