Adobe Reader 9 and a Guide for Screen Reader Users
Adobe Reader 9 is out and I wanted to point out where to download Reader and to mention that there is a new document available to help screen reader users understand how to access PDF.
The Guide was created in conjunction with AFB Consulting (the consulting arm of the American Foundation for the Blind) and provides information for users of two tools (JAWS and Window-Eyes) to help understand what is possible and expected when interacting with different types of PDF documents that are commonly found online. The types are PDF documents that are:
- tagged correctly for accessibility
- untagged, with no author attention to accessibility
- scanned documents
- interactive forms
Helping users understand the differences between these documents and how their assistive technologies can be best used is an important step toward efficient user of PDF files by screen reader users. We hope that this guide is useful, and are interested in any comments.
The guide is presently available as a PDF file, but will also be available as a series of HTML pages soon.
The guide and reader 9 can both be accessed from the Reader 9 accessibility page, at http://www.adobe.com/accessibility/products/reader/.
Comments
I Need to read the user guide to understand how it can work for me.
Posted by: J.J. | July 19, 2008 9:05 AM
Incompatibility using Adobe Version 9 witn PDF Converter 4. Adobe Reader works fine after PDF Converter 4 was uninstalled!
Posted by: Bob Meinerding | August 6, 2008 10:05 AM
I am a blind person and I use JAWS with Adobe Reader. I am unable to find how to use digitally signed pdf files with Adobe Reader 8 or 9. Digitally signed files only work in Adobe® Digital Editions, which is not accessible. The another suggested way is to use Adobe Reader 7, but I am using vista and vista does not recommend installing Adobe Reader 7. Even if I ignore vista advice, some of my files are not working on Adobe Reader 7, which means I need to install / uninstall Adobe Reader 7 or 9 for each type of file.
Posted by: Dinesh Kaushal | January 25, 2009 5:08 AM
I can not change the voices of the readout loud. I have only one installed Anna, Using version 9 with Vista any solution
Posted by: bishoy | February 5, 2009 4:17 PM
Bishoy,
Vista only gives you Anna, but if you bought additional voices you'd be able to use them in Reader.
Posted by: Andrew Kirkpatrick | February 5, 2009 5:05 PM
can someone please tell me how to accept the license agreement. There is no accept button on the page , the page is too bi, I cannot make the page shrink, and I must restart to go on. It is crazy and I can't fugure it out. Help
Posted by: phil lamebull | February 11, 2009 3:56 PM
I downloaded 9.1 and when I tried to use it a license agreement appeared. It would not let me use 9.1 until I pushed the accept button but no such button appears. How do I fix the problem. I saw above that another person has the same problem but no response or advice was given.
Posted by: Ashley | March 11, 2009 10:20 AM
my adobe rader 9.0 dose not work it keep giving me an error msg. i want to uninstall the pc dose not let it gives me error #1606
Posted by: ray | April 28, 2009 2:58 AM
I'm experiencing the same problem of no accept button to push which has been going on for the past two months. Seems like you could have corrected this by now.
Posted by: john c.jackson | May 1, 2009 5:35 PM
My new Dell laptop came preloaded with Adobe Reader 9. When I try to use it, I am presented with a license agreement to accept, but NO ACCEPT BUTTON. Others seem to have the same issue. HELP.
Thanks.
Posted by: Bill Laffin | May 3, 2009 2:24 PM
I have "Adobe 8.1 has stopped working. A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available." Then I am led to an update is available-Download the latest version of Adobe Reader 9.1, which I try to download and then I get a message-error 1606 could not access local network %APPDATA%-can anyone direct me to solving this puzzle?
Posted by: Lisa | May 7, 2009 9:41 PM
my adobe reader does not allow me to accept the agreement what isthe problem
Posted by: leslie | May 29, 2009 4:06 AM
I CANNT GET THE ACCEPT BUTTON EITHER WHAT CAN I DO? HELP
Posted by: jean vecchi | June 13, 2009 1:03 PM
I'm making some accessible PDFs for a government website, and one of the pdfs has several tables in it. The original documents are in InDesign. I have the structure set up, and tagged in InDesign, and it exports just fine. The screen reader has no problem reading it, however, it always reads the table across, row by row. Some of these tables are meant to be read down in columns. I can't figure out how to make it read tables in a different order. Any help?
Posted by: Matt | June 17, 2009 4:40 PM
Matt,
Screen readers will read the table in the tagging order, and unless your table is rotate 90 degrees, that will mean left to right across the first row and then the second and so on. Screen reader users can read in the order that they want with table reading keys, so users can read down a column if that is what makes sense for the data, and they choose to do that. Your job is to provide the right structure, and it sounds like you've done that.
Posted by: Andrew Kirkpatrick | June 19, 2009 12:55 PM