Hi, I did have to use VO-shift-space to activate the text area within the pdf document. Sorry, I forgot to mention that part in my first post. VO-space wouldn't do anything but the simulated mouse-click VO-shift-space activated the text area for me.
Hope it works for you. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2013-02-12, at 12:04 PM, Eugenia Firth <gigifi...@me.com> wrote: > Hi again Tim. > After your post, I tried to edit a copy of a 1040 form that I filed for 2011. > It should work since as I know, I didn't do something that would make it read > only. I did the edit toolbar which I din't know about until you said. I > interacted with it, and found the text toolbar, finally, and checked it. Then > I had done command 2 like you said. I interacted with the text thinking I > needed to if I was going to make it work. Nothing. I still can't do it. Can > you figure out what I'm doing wrong? > > Regards, > Gigi > > On Feb 12, 2013, at 11:02 AM, Tim Kilburn <kilbur...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Actually, I was reading some documentation the other day and it mentioned >> that Preview works for editable PDFs. Open your document in Preview, select >> Edit from within the ToolBar, then select the TextTool from within the Edit >> ToolBar and you should be able to fill out pdf forms. I tried it on a form >> I had here and it appeared to work fine. I have heard others on this list >> complain loudly about Preview but it works fine for me. I usually press >> cmd-2 to put it into "Single Page" mode and it works much better for me that >> way. >> >> Later... >> >> Tim Kilburn >> Fort McMurray, AB Canada >> >> On 2013-02-12, at 9:36 AM, Eugenia Firth <gigifi...@me.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi Pam >>> I have some unfortunate news here. This issue of editing good old PDF forms >>> is an issue we have talked about before and will no doubt talk again until >>> it is resolved. Unless you put Windows on your Mac and download Adobe >>> Acrobat Reader to your computer, there is not yet a good way to do this on >>> the Mac if you're blind. >>> >>> At someone's suggestion, I put PDFpen on my Mac, but it's partially >>> inaccessible. You might as well join some of the rest of us in squawking >>> about this. >>> Regards, >>> Gigi who still hates PDF files >>> >>> On Feb 12, 2013, at 9:50 AM, ppowell...@aol.com wrote: >>> >>>> Hi folks, >>>> I receive forms from my state periodically to re- determine my eligibility >>>> for state funds. Does anyone know of an accessible means to reliably fill >>>> out the paperwork on the computer, printed, and sign it? I can print it, I >>>> can sign it. However filling out the forms is a major issue. I cannot read >>>> snail mail. To my knowledge, Microsoft office, is not accessible on the >>>> Mac. Not sure if their version of PDF, will work with the forms. Please >>>> help? >>>> >>>> Pam Francis >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
