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From: Patrick Burke
Date: Jun 10, 2009 10:15AM

At 02:10 PM 6/9/2009, Moore,Michael wrote:
>That is because those items are not really form fields. Reading line
>by line or word by word I found them understandable. The form
>appears to expect that those item will be completed with pen and
>paper, not uncommon for release forms.

I understand what you mean. I should have clarified further. All
those labels appear run together on my braille display.

("Signature of StudentDateSignificant Other*Date")

Doing a second check I found a couple other examples of this:


"FirstMiddleLast"
(This is read after the Name form fields.)

"Graphic NumberStreetCityZipcode"
(Before the address fields)

There is also the "Graphic 9" near the start of the page.

(So my experience matches Priti Rohra's findings pretty closely.


>Which version of Adobe reader are you using. We found some
>significant problems with forms with Reader 8 and JAWS 9 and 10.

I'm using Acrobat Pro 9.1.1 (& Jaws 10).

All best,
Patrick


>Mike Moore
>(512) 424-4159
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>Hmm, the only odd thing I noticed (using Jaws 10, Build 512) was that
>the labels for the signature boxes at the bottom were all read together:
>
>"Signature of StudentDateSignificant Other*Date"
>
>The main form itself behaved quite well.
>
>Patrick
>At 12:53 PM 6/9/2009, Jan Heck wrote:
> >I would really appreciate it if one or more proficient screen reader users
> >would let me know your experience with this online form:
> >http://www.coastline.edu/documents/releasestatement.pdf
> >Thanks very much!
> >Jan Heck
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