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Re: JAWS keyboard command for Page Labels in PDFs
From: Duff Johnson
Date: Feb 9, 2024 11:32AM
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As Karen says, page labels are important to PDF accessibility. The feature was introduced with PDF 1.3 in 2000.
For the technical definition please see ISO 3200-2, 12.4.2.
ISO 32000-2 is available at no cost from the PDF Association. To get your copy:
https://pdfa.org/resource/iso-32000-pdf/
Duff Johnson
PDF Association
> On Feb 9, 2024, at 12:42, < <EMAIL REMOVED> > < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> What do you mean by page labels? Are you talking about page headers or document titles?
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> From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of Karen McCall
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> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] JAWS keyboard command for Page Labels in PDFs
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> OK, neither keyboard command works. They both used to!
> For both the NVDA and JAWS keyboard commands that are supposed to read Page Labels, neither works.
> A workaround for JAWS is to press Ctrl + Shift + N and then Ctrl + B to give you the correct page X of Y.
> BUT if Page Labels have not been implemented in the PDF, the page numbering will be wrong.
> Note that Page Labels are the correct way to identify page numbers in a PDF so having this ability removed is not a good step forward.
> At this point, I don't know if this is an Adobe PDF Editor/Reader issue or an issue with both screen readers.
> Both of these should be documented keyboard commands!!!!!!! And they should work when Page Labels are implemented.!
> Cheers, Karen
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> From: Karen McCall
> Sent: Friday, February 9, 2024 12:03 PM
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> Subject: JAWS keyboard command for Page Labels in PDFs
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> Afternoon Everyone!
> I have the NVDA keyboard command for reading Page Labels in PDFs: NVDA + End.
> In JAWS, JawsKey + Page Down used to read the Page Labels but it doesn't seem to do that anymore.
> There is no documentation on the Freedom Scientific website or reference to reading the Page Labels on any third-party "how to access PDFs with JAWS" web pages.
> Does anyone know what the keyboard command to read page Labels in JAWS is? It did exist!
> Currently, pressing JawsKey + Page Down returns "See All" which it is getting from somewhere on the screen.
> Cheers, Karen
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