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Re: PDF: Discrepancy with JAWS and NVDA

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From: Whitney Quesenbery
Date: Aug 23, 2016 8:47AM

What is a poor content producer supposed to do with this sort of problem?

Let's say you created an accessible PDF, with properly tagged and
alt-texted images.

Whose responsibility is it?



On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 8:54 AM Jonathan Avila < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> > I think there is still the bug in JAWS 17 where it is not
> reading/finding images in PDF documents. I'm finding the same issue in
> Acrobat/Reader DC that existed in Acrobat/Reader XI. So this is a JAWS
> thing.
>
> Yes, sadly this has been reported and is still an issue with the latest
> update of JAWS 17.
>
> Jonathan
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On
> Behalf Of Karlen Communications
> Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2016 8:10 AM
> To: 'WebAIM Discussion List'
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] PDF: Discrepancy with JAWS and NVDA
>
> I think there is still the bug in JAWS 17 where it is not reading/finding
> images in PDF documents. I'm finding the same issue in Acrobat/Reader DC
> that existed in Acrobat/Reader XI. So this is a JAWS thing.
>
> Cheers, Karen
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On
> Behalf Of Mohith BP
> Sent: August 23, 2016 1:30 AM
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> Subject: [WebAIM] PDF: Discrepancy with JAWS and NVDA
>
> Hi List,
>
> I am facing a strange issue with the PDF files produced by Adobe InDesign.
> The images in the document are with the appropriate alternate text.
> NVDA is recognizing the images. However, JAWS is not recognizing any
> images in the document.
>
> Please suggest is there any solution for the same.
>
>
> Thanks & Regards,
> Mohith B. P.
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