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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