I agree that preview is normally the better option, but I installed
Adobe just to see if their claims of accessibility were any good.
Unfortunately, Reader is still not very accessible. I can navigate
with VO just fine around the interface, but I can't access the text
which makes it useless
However, Preview has two deficiencies which would have been overcome
had Reader worked. It does not work with hyperlinks in a pdf
document, and surprisingly it does not seem to display accented
characters. I am not expecting VO to pronounce the German, but
normally when there is an accented character in textedit for
instance, VO will announce it when it is arrowed over. However, this
does not happen with preview, (nor do the appear when I copy the text
to textedit) which makes me think that preview is just not displaying
the accents at all. This seems strange since I have found it much
easier to work with foreign languages on a mac than a pc.
Greg
On Apr 23, 2007, at 9:28 AM, John Weir wrote:
Why would you want to use Adobe Reader when Preview is Vo
accessable is part of OSX and is a equally good pdf or TIff
processor? Vickie Weir
James Austin wrote:
Hi Greg,
I have trid Adobe Reader Eight and I really don't like it. In fact
I don't think any of Adobe's reading products are VO compatible.
If you simply want to convert PDF documents I sugest you try to et
a copy of Adobe Reader 7.0. Version 8.0 has some problems when
trying to read E books.
Also, from what I have ben abl to find out with my own playing
with Adobe Reder we cannot interact with the content area, i.e.
where the text of a pdf is located.
Hope this helps
James
