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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Oct 3, 2020 5:34AM

Chrome has a surprisingly decent PDF viewer by now. I have, for the
most part, stopped downloading web-based PDF files, just open them in
Chrome instead. I have not tried this on interactive PDFs though but
for static documents reading order, headings and so on are properly
exposed (to Jaws/NVDA).

On 10/2/20, Sailesh Panchang < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> A long standing practice for me has been:
> I prefer to download PDFs and read them using Adobe Reader.
> I do this off links that open up a PDF in the browser too.
> On Windows, this is the most effective way of getting to content /
> navigating around in a tagged or even untagged doc that may or may
> not include forms.
> As 2020 draws to a close, I am wondering if there are other reliable
> and effective PDF/UA viewers that work with screen readers on Windows
> /mobile / Mac and would like to learn from the experience of SR
> colleagues on the list.
>
> Thanks very much,
> Sailesh
> > > > >


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