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Re: Are PDF forms accessible on Mac?

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From: John E Brandt
Date: Apr 17, 2012 8:57AM

As others have stated in this thread, this is an Adobe issue not an Apple
issue. There are many programs/applications for the Mac OS that existed
before VoiceOver (VO) was developed. In an effort to be
backwards-compatible, these applications still work with the latest versions
of the OS but not necessarily with all of the OS features such as VO. The
application developer is often faced with the cost of re-building the
application from scratch to accommodate the new OS features. For whatever
reason, Adobe has not done this.

Microsoft has also been slow to update their applications for the Mac. They
moved halfway with MS Office for Mac 2011 by making the application itself
compatible with VO (The 2003 version of MS Office for Mac is not able to use
any of VO). But ironically, you cannot read the content (the actual)
document in the application with VO.

I just tested several PDFs with Preview on the Mac with VO and Adobe Acrobat
Reader for Mac OSX using the Read Out Loud feature in Acrobat Reader to see
what it would do; basically, the same results with all documents.

~j

John E. Brandt
www.jebswebs.com
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207-622-7937
Augusta, Maine, USA