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I was interested in this question as I know that a growing number of documents on the internet are in .pdf files. I called the disabilities group at our school and they pointed out that a Kurzweil program of recent vintage installed to a computer allows one to open the document in the Kurzweil program and this will enable reading the document by a voice reader. I have also noticed that many documents found via Google have the alternative of opening the document as .html via Google and this may lead to a format that is usable for a voice reading program of text copy, it can be tried. This Google .html version is not the same as a regular .html document as I have encountered problems trying to copy and paste the document from a Google .html document that originates from a .pdf file indexed by Google. Finally, a .pdf file much of the time now has a button up at the top that enabled one to after clicking on the button, sometimes called select, to copy and paste part or all of the document and once that content is pasted elsewhere, this would be creating a text file that should be readable by voice reader. One may also want to contact Adobe Acrobat and ask questions as they are the software manufacturing force behind the .pdf files and they may have some useful solutions to this problem. Adobe Acrobat, as far as I know is merging with Macromedia in the future. Adobe Acrobat Contact Information <http://www.adobe.com/misc/comments.html> I am no expert in these matters and so anyone is welcome to correct me in any or all of these observations. This recent Net-Gold post may also be of interest here. From: "David P. Dillard" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Thu Aug 18, 2005 7:20 am Subject: DISABILITIES : EDUCATION: K-12: STUDENTS: The Access Center <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/7701> Sincerely, David Dillard Temple University (215) 204 - 4584 [log in to unmask] <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/net-gold> <http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/ringleaders/davidd.html> <http://www.kovacs.com/medref-l/medref-l.html> <http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/net-gold.html> <http://www.LIFEofFlorida.org> Digital Divide Network <http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/jwne> ------------------------------------------------ On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, LILITH Finkler wrote: LILITH Finkler <[log in to unmask]> > Hello Folks! I visited the LEEDS disability studies online publications web > site. All the documents are in PDF format which my blind friend can not > access. Apparently the speech reader programs can not read PDF. Does anyone > know how a blind person can access the materials in an alternate format? Thanks, Lilith ________________End of message______________________ Archives and tools for the Disability-Research Discussion List are now located at: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html You can JOIN or LEAVE the list from this web page.