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From: Lower, Laurie
Date: Jun 14, 2017 6:52AM

Hey all,

Something strange happened between when I first posted and yesterday afternoon--I opened up the same documents and JAWS cooperated. I'm not sure what happened, but at least it's working now. Hmmmmmm.

Thank you for your input!

Laurie

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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Allayne Woodford
Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2017 6:16 PM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] JAWS isn't reading tagged and recently touched up .pdfs

Hi Laurie,

Is the PDF very large, like over 50 pages? I too have had this issue at times but know for a fact that the tags are present and correct. From memory there's a setting somewhere that references the size that could be adjusted.

Have you tried with NVDA, Voiceover or Read Aloud to see if the same thing happens?

Ally Woodford
Accessibility Services Manager
Media Access Australia

> On 13 Jun 2017, at 11:50 pm, Andrews, David B (DEED) < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> I have never seen this, but I have seen a few instances where JAWS did not properly read a tagged PDF that was tagged correctly. This is with JAWS default settings. I know others who have had the same experience too.
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> Dave
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On
> Behalf Of Lower, Laurie
> Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2017 8:10 AM
> To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> Subject: [WebAIM] JAWS isn't reading tagged and recently touched up
> .pdfs
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> Hello all,
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> I recently made an unpleasant discovery that JAWS won't read a few .pdfs that have tags and have recently had their reading order manually touched up. Instead of hearing the text of each .pdf, all I'm hearing is the dreaded "blank blank blank" and "tab tab tab tab" when I use the tab button Has anyone had anything similar happen? If so, how did you remediate it?
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> Many thanks,
> LL
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