I feel that the following issues relating with inaccessibility of PDF documents 1) There are some PDF documents which JAWS fails to read and in case of such PDF documents JAWS just announces as empty document. You then need to sit and convert these PDF documents using ocr to make them accessible.
2)Even In case of PDF documents which are accessible with JAWS, Navigating through such documents is also a very difficult task and this must be simplified and made easy. 3) Even In case of PDF documents which are accessible with JAWSSearching through such PDF documents using the find option is also not easy. 4) Efforts be made to make PDF documents as user friendly with JAWS as word documents. Regards Narendra On 9/7/19, Himanshu Sahu <sahu.himanshu2...@gmail.com> wrote: > IN addition to the clubbing of more than one words together, often > after every alphabet of a word, there is space given, or may be it is > not there, but JAWS reads it like... > > > On 9/6/19, Kotian, H P <hpkot...@rbi.org.in> wrote: >> Hi Amar >> In addition to those issues pointed below, In many PDF files I have found >> text joined together. The screen reader makes some effort to speak it out >> but it sounds gibberish. >> To summarize the points >> 1 It should be Unicode compliant >> 2 Any protection applied like print disabled etc. may continue to have >> the >> restrictions but the text should be available to screen readers. >> 3 Image PDF files should have OCR to convert into text and the OCR >> engines >> should be having Indian languages as well. >> 4 In a save as text option there should be RTF format by which the >> formatting of the document is preserved. >> 5 Forms should be accessible by screen readers. >> 6 Arbitrary string concatenation issue should be addressed. >> 7 Under edit menu to add to select the table. This can help in copying a >> table. >> 8 In accessibility selection dialog box the start button does not have a >> keyboard access key. That should be added. Sometimes I have found the tab >> does not go to it. >> 9 Sometimes when using a browser, the PDF file opens inside the browser >> Here >> the OCR functionality provided by screen reader too does not work. It is >> very difficult to read that document. The user is forced to save the >> document first and read it later on. The suggestion is when screen reader >> is >> active the document should open in the stand alone Acrobat reader and not >> in >> the browser. >> >> Thanks Amar to take this up. >> Harish. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On >> Behalf >> Of Rohit Trivedi >> Sent: Friday, September 6, 2019 6:32 AM >> To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues >> concerning >> the disabled. >> Subject: Re: [AI] List down your accessibility issues with PDFs >> >> Dear amar, >> >> When ever accessibility features are enabled in Adobe there should be a >> feature to have OCR facility available particularly when it is an image >> file. This will eliminate the cumbersome task of using third party >> software >> for conversion of image file and files made with non-unicode /ttf fonts >> in >> languages like hindi into a text file. Some thing that apps like ID or >> Envision are doing in phone. >> >> Rohit >> >> >> >> >> >> ________________________________ >> From: AccessIndia <accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in> on behalf of >> Sandeep Singh <sandeepsingh...@gmail.com> >> Sent: Thursday, September 5, 2019 8:59:59 PM >> To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues >> concerning >> the disabled. <accessindia@accessindia.org.in> >> Subject: Re: [AI] List down your accessibility issues with PDFs >> >> I don't know if this problem is universal or not, but I find it difficult >> to >> read Hindi PDF files. I can easily read the same text in Word file. >> >> On 9/5/19, bhawani shankar verma <bsvermad...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Another major issue is same pdf file opening with old version of adobe >>> acrobat reader but can't be opened with acrobat reader dc. >>> >>> On Thu, 5 Sep 2019, 6:59 p.m. Vedprakash Sharma, < >>> vedprakash.sha...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> The most obvious problem arises when the pdf file is password >>>> protected and one can read the file but cannot modify. In such cases, >>>> unless one knows the password, there is no solution. Bank statements, >>>> creditcard bills etc come in this form. >>>> Second problem arises when some takes photo of some written pages and >>>> saves the image in pdf form. In such cases, Jaws command >>>> "insert+space +O W" is very helpful but it is not the solution. >>>> Third major problem is related to scanning. While scanning a >>>> document, various unnecessary characters hamper the reading the >>>> document. >>>> Especially, >>>> CBSE books display the title of the chapter on every page. Hence, >>>> when we give a read all command, each page begins with the chapter >>>> name. some times, this chapter name comes in between a sentence, >>>> resulting in misleading meanings. >>>> While reading maths and science books, tables and charts are not >>>> properly read. >>>> >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On >>>> Behalf Of Amar Jain >>>> Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2019 7:56 AM >>>> To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in >>>> Subject: [AI] List down your accessibility issues with PDFs >>>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> Considering the pain of blind professionals and students, some of us >>>> have decided to work with Adobe and Vispero to find out ways in which >>>> PDFs can be made better for people with blindness. 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