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From: Birkir Rúnar Gunnarsson
Date: Jan 26, 2011 5:51PM

Andrew

Is that because of lack of accessible interface support on non-Windows
platforms, or is it because screen readers on other platforms have not
taken advantage of existing accessibility interfaces or APIs?
I actually got the pdf reader on OSX to read documents just fine, not
any special marked up text (links, lists, headings) but it could read
just the plain text.
Tomorrow I will post specific apps I tried it with, my colleague
actually ran those two tests and I want to confirm with him to have
the precise name and version along with the O.S. tested.
Thanks
-Birkir

On 1/26/11, Andrew Kirkpatrick < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> John,
> Support for accessibility via the accessibility API is essentially for
> Windows alone with Reader presently.
>
> Thanks,
> AWK
>
> Andrew Kirkpatrick
> Group Product Manager, Accessibility
> Adobe Systems
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> <EMAIL REMOVED>
> http://twitter.com/awkawk
> http://blogs.adobe.com/accessibility
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