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Re: PDF: Discrepancy with JAWS and NVDA

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From: Karlen Communications
Date: Aug 23, 2016 10:52AM

JAWS, while having a lot of the market share, is not the only adaptive technology so we have to keep that in mind. And for the previous versions of JAWS and hopefully the next version, this bug will be fixed...and hopefully it will be fixed in a JAWS 17 update.

While we may play "troubleshooting twister" in trying to ensure that graphics are "read" by one version of one adaptive technology, the good thing about PDF/UA and tagging to a standard rather than focusing on making content accessible to a specific adaptive technology and a specific version of an adaptive technology is that the content is universally accessible to other adaptive technologies and other version of JAWS (in this case) and if the problem isn't fixed, those of us who use screen readers will gravitate to the tools that serve us best.

Cheers, Karen

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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Whitney Quesenbery
Sent: August 23, 2016 10:47 AM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] PDF: Discrepancy with JAWS and NVDA

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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