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Re: Nvda in other languages

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From: Steve Green
Date: Feb 24, 2018 5:55AM

Have you checked the PDFs with any other screen readers? I have seen plenty of PDFs where the glyphs that you see are different from the underlying characters that are exposed to screen readers. The easiest way to check this is to highlight some text in the PDF, copy it and paste it into another document such as Notepad or Word. You would hope that the text that appears in the new document is the same as what you see in the PDF, but sometimes it isn't.

I don't know why some PDF conversion applications do this, but if this is what's happening you will need to use a different conversion program.

Steve Green
Managing Director
Test Partners Ltd


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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of sara hunter
Sent: 24 February 2018 00:36
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Subject: [WebAIM] Nvda in other languages

Good afternoon,

We are testing accessibility of pdf documents translated from English into Russian and Chinese. I cannot get nvda to properly read the documents. In Chinese it just states ‘Chinese letter letter letter' and in Russian it is speaking but not making any sense as our Russian translator cannot understand. Is there a critical step I am missing.
We have set the pdf document to the correct language, set the general and voice settings to the correct language in nvda. Any advice would be great.

Thanks,
Sara Willhite


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