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From: David Engebretson Jr.
Date: Oct 3, 2020 1:08PM

Hi Birkir,

I'm happy to hear you are finding the presentation of PDF documents in
Chrome more accessible. Is this the Chrome PDF add-on you are using?

I ask because I find the latency from keypress to when the TTS engine starts
to talk (I'm using Eloquence) is significant enough that I have to use the
Adobe Reader application on my Windows 10 machine so I don't get frustrated
with the latency while viewing PDF's in Chrome.

Are you experiencing any latency?

Thanks for your thoughts!
David

-----Original Message-----
From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of
Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Sent: Saturday, October 03, 2020 4:34 AM
To: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] PDF viewers used by screen reader users

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
> > > archives at http://webaim.org/discussion/archives
> >


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