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From: Priti Rohra
Date: Sep 9, 2009 7:15AM

Hello Bevi,

Great, JAWS 8 with Adobe Reader 9 reads them fine!!

Following are some of the examples as were read by JAWS:
1. Symbol: checkmark in checkbox
Toothbrush

2. The game ended by checkmate, when Symbol: Black knight chess piece
overtook Symbol: White queen chess piece

3. Continued on page Symbol: Numeral 2 in a decorative black circle

4. Step
Symbol: Numeral 2 in a decorative circle
Open the document.


My only concern is that JAWS treats it as a separate element and thus it
reads it on a separate line while reading the content one line at a time.
(As can be analyzed from the above examples) However, no issues when read
continuously.

Hope we can cut down on the language to minimize the listening for screen
reader users!

Hope this helps...

Thanks & Regards,
Priti Rohra
Accessibility Tester
Net Systems Informatics (India) Pvt. Ltd.
Web: www.n-syst.com|www.barrierbreak.com
blog: www.barrierbreak.com/blog

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bevi Chagnon | PubCom" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: "'WebAIM Discussion List'" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 12:30 AM
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Reading upper-level Unicode glyphs in PDF


> Summary (almost there):
>
> Based on Jared and Karen's comments, and combined with an Adobe reference
> to
> tagging abbreviations
> http://www.adobe.com/accessibility/products/acrobat/pdf/A9-pdf-access-repair
> -workflow.pdf, I think I have a workable solution for InDesign desktop
> publishers who must export 508-accessible PDFs from their layouts.
>
> Can I ask a favor? I have a test PDF uploaded to my website that has
> several
> samples of upper-level Unicode characters in different usage scenarios. I
> tried to replicate what I find my government publishers doing in their
> InDesign layouts.
>
> My goal is to find a way to let the designers create what they need to
> have
> in the visual design and give 508-users a way to read the Unicode
> characters.
>
> Would a few screen reader users/list members take a quick look at the PDF
> and let me know if it works? I'll post an online tutorial for the list
> when
> I have the details worked out.
>
> It's short.
> It's here:
> http://pubcom.com/newsletter/pdf-samples/3_Unicode-Test-2_corrected.pdf
>
> Thanks in advance,
> --Bevi Chagnon
>
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> Acrobat, & 508
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Karlen
> Communications
> Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 10:49 AM
> To: 'WebAIM Discussion List'
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Reading upper-level Unicode glyphs in PDF
>
> Wouldn't you want to use the Actual Text attribute since you want the
> character to read as part of text and not as a standalone graphic?
>
> Cheers, Karen
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Jared Smith
> Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 10:31 AM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Reading upper-level Unicode glyphs in PDF
>
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Bevi Chagnon | PubCom< <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> wrote:
>
>> Since JAWS isn't reading the Unicode characters, do you have any
>> suggested
>> workaround for those of us who must create documents with these extended
>> characters?
>
> I think the only way to have them read is to provide the character
> name or text into the tags of the document. In Acrobat Pro, select the
> tag for that character (you might need to go through the process of
> creating a new tag if that character is included in a tag that
> contains the surrounding text), then select Properties... Tag... and
> then enter Alternative Text into the appropriate box.
>
> Jared Smith
> WebAIM
>