Re: [JAWS-Users] Accessing an adobe job app.
Gosh, thanks so much. Very helpful information. Judy -Original Message- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Debby Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2017 10:34 AM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Accessing an adobe job app. When I opened the document on the web, I looked at the file menu and checked out the properties. At first I thought it might be a security problem, but when I compared the properties of your file with one of my own that works, I ruled out security. I think it was under the "description" tab that I found the creator and the application that was purported to have been used to create the file. The application said "pscript5.dll." I googled that and the suggestion was that it was a driver and the document should be printed to pdf. Also, somewhere in there it said that the file was not "tagged." I think that would make reading it with accessibility in mind a bit messy. I don't really know all of the details about creating pdf files. I also don't know much about the pro version of adobe; however, at work before there was convenient OCR, the pro version was really handy because it could do the OCR on those images we all love so much! Unless you are going to create PDF's in adobe, I don't think you probably need the pro version, since convenient OCR is available in JAWS. If I am wrong about any of this, someone will let us know. Good luck with the job! Debby -Original Message- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Judy Jones Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2017 12:09 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Accessing an adobe job app. Thanks so much. I came to the same conclusions you did after playing around with it. HR is willing to send it in a word doc, so that solved the immediate problem. I just wanted to make sure I had not missed anything. BTW, how were you able to find the creator of the doc, and how did you guess a step was skipped in the doc creation, and where and how do you get the full Acrobat version? Is it worth it to get the full version? Obviously you know quite a bit more about Adobe than I, and I appreciate your help. Thanks. Judy -Original Message- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Debby Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2017 6:27 AM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Accessing an adobe job app. Hi Judy, Have you been able to do anything with this? If not, I did a little research, and it seems that online, it is not accessible. But if you print it to pdf, you can actually read the document. I don't think it is fillable, at least it wasn't in Acrobat DC, but you could either print it and have someone sighted fill it in, or there is a chance it is fillable using the full version of Acrobat. I think the creator of the documents, Scott, skipped a step or two, and that is why it is not readable online. If you have any questions, let me know, I'll try to help. Good luck! Debby -Original Message- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Judy Jones Sent: Monday, June 19, 2017 7:03 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: [JAWS-Users] Accessing an adobe job app. Hello again, everyone. Below is a link to our town and on it is a link to the application for Recruitment Coordinator. When clicking on the link to apply, the Adobe doc comes up, but not editable, as far as I can see. One of the city employees in HR says it is fillable online. I'm going to try other browsers to see if they can pull up an editable adobe doc. Right now, I have tried this with Internet Explorer, and am using Windows 10 creator edition. Thanks for any ideas. Here is the link to the job, and on this page is the link to the app itself. http://www.tfid.org/Jobs.aspx?UniqueId=94=All=False =Recruitment-Coordinator-95 Thanks once again for your collective wisdom. Judy 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/ 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/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [JAWS-Users] Accessing an adobe job app.
When I opened the document on the web, I looked at the file menu and checked out the properties. At first I thought it might be a security problem, but when I compared the properties of your file with one of my own that works, I ruled out security. I think it was under the "description" tab that I found the creator and the application that was purported to have been used to create the file. The application said "pscript5.dll." I googled that and the suggestion was that it was a driver and the document should be printed to pdf. Also, somewhere in there it said that the file was not "tagged." I think that would make reading it with accessibility in mind a bit messy. I don't really know all of the details about creating pdf files. I also don't know much about the pro version of adobe; however, at work before there was convenient OCR, the pro version was really handy because it could do the OCR on those images we all love so much! Unless you are going to create PDF's in adobe, I don't think you probably need the pro version, since convenient OCR is available in JAWS. If I am wrong about any of this, someone will let us know. Good luck with the job! Debby -Original Message- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Judy Jones Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2017 12:09 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Accessing an adobe job app. Thanks so much. I came to the same conclusions you did after playing around with it. HR is willing to send it in a word doc, so that solved the immediate problem. I just wanted to make sure I had not missed anything. BTW, how were you able to find the creator of the doc, and how did you guess a step was skipped in the doc creation, and where and how do you get the full Acrobat version? Is it worth it to get the full version? Obviously you know quite a bit more about Adobe than I, and I appreciate your help. Thanks. Judy -Original Message- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Debby Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2017 6:27 AM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Accessing an adobe job app. Hi Judy, Have you been able to do anything with this? If not, I did a little research, and it seems that online, it is not accessible. But if you print it to pdf, you can actually read the document. I don't think it is fillable, at least it wasn't in Acrobat DC, but you could either print it and have someone sighted fill it in, or there is a chance it is fillable using the full version of Acrobat. I think the creator of the documents, Scott, skipped a step or two, and that is why it is not readable online. If you have any questions, let me know, I'll try to help. Good luck! Debby -Original Message- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Judy Jones Sent: Monday, June 19, 2017 7:03 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: [JAWS-Users] Accessing an adobe job app. Hello again, everyone. Below is a link to our town and on it is a link to the application for Recruitment Coordinator. When clicking on the link to apply, the Adobe doc comes up, but not editable, as far as I can see. One of the city employees in HR says it is fillable online. I'm going to try other browsers to see if they can pull up an editable adobe doc. Right now, I have tried this with Internet Explorer, and am using Windows 10 creator edition. Thanks for any ideas. Here is the link to the job, and on this page is the link to the app itself. http://www.tfid.org/Jobs.aspx?UniqueId=94=All=False =Recruitment-Coordinator-95 Thanks once again for your collective wisdom. Judy 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/ 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/
Re: [JAWS-Users] Accessing an adobe job app.
Thanks so much. I came to the same conclusions you did after playing around with it. HR is willing to send it in a word doc, so that solved the immediate problem. I just wanted to make sure I had not missed anything. BTW, how were you able to find the creator of the doc, and how did you guess a step was skipped in the doc creation, and where and how do you get the full Acrobat version? Is it worth it to get the full version? Obviously you know quite a bit more about Adobe than I, and I appreciate your help. Thanks. Judy -Original Message- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Debby Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2017 6:27 AM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Accessing an adobe job app. Hi Judy, Have you been able to do anything with this? If not, I did a little research, and it seems that online, it is not accessible. But if you print it to pdf, you can actually read the document. I don't think it is fillable, at least it wasn't in Acrobat DC, but you could either print it and have someone sighted fill it in, or there is a chance it is fillable using the full version of Acrobat. I think the creator of the documents, Scott, skipped a step or two, and that is why it is not readable online. If you have any questions, let me know, I'll try to help. Good luck! Debby -Original Message- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Judy Jones Sent: Monday, June 19, 2017 7:03 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: [JAWS-Users] Accessing an adobe job app. Hello again, everyone. Below is a link to our town and on it is a link to the application for Recruitment Coordinator. When clicking on the link to apply, the Adobe doc comes up, but not editable, as far as I can see. One of the city employees in HR says it is fillable online. I'm going to try other browsers to see if they can pull up an editable adobe doc. Right now, I have tried this with Internet Explorer, and am using Windows 10 creator edition. Thanks for any ideas. Here is the link to the job, and on this page is the link to the app itself. http://www.tfid.org/Jobs.aspx?UniqueId=94=All=False =Recruitment-Coordinator-95 Thanks once again for your collective wisdom. Judy 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/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [JAWS-Users] Accessing an adobe job app.
Hi Judy, Have you been able to do anything with this? If not, I did a little research, and it seems that online, it is not accessible. But if you print it to pdf, you can actually read the document. I don't think it is fillable, at least it wasn't in Acrobat DC, but you could either print it and have someone sighted fill it in, or there is a chance it is fillable using the full version of Acrobat. I think the creator of the documents, Scott, skipped a step or two, and that is why it is not readable online. If you have any questions, let me know, I'll try to help. Good luck! Debby -Original Message- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Judy Jones Sent: Monday, June 19, 2017 7:03 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: [JAWS-Users] Accessing an adobe job app. Hello again, everyone. Below is a link to our town and on it is a link to the application for Recruitment Coordinator. When clicking on the link to apply, the Adobe doc comes up, but not editable, as far as I can see. One of the city employees in HR says it is fillable online. I'm going to try other browsers to see if they can pull up an editable adobe doc. Right now, I have tried this with Internet Explorer, and am using Windows 10 creator edition. Thanks for any ideas. Here is the link to the job, and on this page is the link to the app itself. http://www.tfid.org/Jobs.aspx?UniqueId=94=All=False =Recruitment-Coordinator-95 Thanks once again for your collective wisdom. Judy 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/
[JAWS-Users] Accessing an adobe job app.
Hello again, everyone. Below is a link to our town and on it is a link to the application for Recruitment Coordinator. When clicking on the link to apply, the Adobe doc comes up, but not editable, as far as I can see. One of the city employees in HR says it is fillable online. I'm going to try other browsers to see if they can pull up an editable adobe doc. Right now, I have tried this with Internet Explorer, and am using Windows 10 creator edition. Thanks for any ideas. Here is the link to the job, and on this page is the link to the app itself. http://www.tfid.org/Jobs.aspx?UniqueId=94=All=False =Recruitment-Coordinator-95 Thanks once again for your collective wisdom. Judy For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
