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From: Rakesh.Paladugula@cognizant.com
Date: Apr 14, 2010 10:27PM

If a PDF file opens in the same window, a screen reader user cannot move
back to the previous page with the normal keyboard command "back space"
or "Alt key + left arrow". If he/she don't know how to revert back to
the previous page they have to close the entire window and again open
the website or webpage. But if the indication is given before he/she
open the pdf that it is a pdf document and that opens in new window then
the screen reader user can close the pdf with "alt + f4 " key and go to
the previous windo once he completes the work on the pdf document.

I suggestion is to pen in new window as a JAWS user.
Rakesh Paladugula.
Accessibility Consultant.
Cognizant Technology Solutions (India).
Mob: 91 9030497136

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DAVOUD TOHIDY wrote:
> Why a pdf content opened in the same window would be less accessible
by screen readers?

My accessibility software doesn't give me full access to the
functionality of the embedded PDF reader, and it's impossible for
me to leave the PDF reader once I've entered it without using
mouse commands. The external Acrobat Reader has full
accessibility functionality, with standard menus, and I can
alt-tab back to the browser.

But as others have said, I configured the "open in external
reader" functionality myself at the browser lever. With
something common like PDF, I'd rather trust the user to make her
own preferred choices. I open in same window/tab or external
window/tab as makes sense to me, and I don't like others to
control it.

-deborah