I'm having pretty good success with JAWS 15 and Adobe Reader DC
actually. Here are a couple of tips I've found:
1. In Adobe Reader XI, when JAWS was processing a large PDF, it would
say so. In DC, it just acts like you're in a blank document. So you just
have to wait it out. Sometimes pressing Control A as if you want to
highlight the whole document helps.
2. For finding a word or phrase in the PDF with JAWS, I use Control
Shift F instead of just Control f. Works fine for me. And that's in both
Reader XI and DC. Control Shift F is the true "Jaws Find" command
apparently.
If you're having a different issue with JAWS and Adobe Reader DC, let me
know. I don't see anything that makes me want to rush to upgrade to DC
at home. I upgraded to DC at work, and it's fine, but I don't see
anything special about it. The main point of it was to push you into the
cloud some more.
Brad
On 12/22/2015 12:37 PM, Brian Vogel wrote:
Ted,
Also as an FYI, Adobe Reader DC is bringing up what looks to
a sighted person to be a dialog box inside the program when Ctrl+F is
hit to do a find. Under the text box where you enter the word or
phrase to be found there is a Previous key (activated by Ctrl+Shift+G)
and a Next key (activated by Ctrl+G).
I have no idea if this is an "improvement" to the DC version
of reader or not. That being said, I've had at least one client
report that JAWS 15 is not playing well with Adobe Reader DC and we
backed him off to Adobe Reader XI.
I'm also finding out that Freedom Scientific often uses the,
"Well, you need to upgrade to JAWS (insert current version number
here) to see if that fixes it," line. It doesn't disturb me so much
that they're pushing upgrades, as those come about for a reason, but
it disturbs me greatly that I hear "to see if that fixes it." Their
own trouble ticket databases should be able to be searched so that
they know whether an update to the software actually addresses a
problem, but I don't know if they don't check that or actually really
don't know. It frustrates me as a tutor and I cannot even begin to
imagine how infuriating this can be for an actual user!
Brian
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