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From: Mark Wojcicki
Date: Wed, Aug 04 2010 10:42AM
Subject: Reading alternate text in Acrobat Reader on Jaws
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I am testing a pdf document in Acrobat Reader 9 with Jaws 11 and I
can’t get it to read the alternate text. It tells me that there is a
link but that’s all

From: James Bailey
Date: Wed, Aug 04 2010 1:21PM
Subject: Re: Reading alternate text in Acrobat Reader on Jaws
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> 1. Reading alternate text in Acrobat Reader on Jaws (Mark Wojcicki)
> I am testing a pdf document in Acrobat Reader 9 with Jaws 11 and I
> can’t get it to read the alternate text. It tells me that there is a
> link but that’s all

Can you post this to a url so I can take a look? What is your authoring tool? Is it just a link?

James

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From: Info LearnAccessibility
Date: Wed, Aug 04 2010 8:00PM
Subject: Re: Reading alternate text in Acrobat Reader on Jaws
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Mark,
Is that a tagged PDF?

On 8/4/10, Mark Wojcicki < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> I am testing a pdf document in Acrobat Reader 9 with Jaws 11 and I
> can’t get it to read the alternate text. It tells me that there is a
> link but that’s all
>