Hi John,
Accessibility Essentials 4 - Making the Most of PDFs has some great advice on creating accessible PDFs and getting the most out of them. It would also be useful to anyone creating PDFs to have a read through Accessibility Essentials 2 - Creating accessible electronic documents with Microsoft Word, as frequently the problem in creating accessible PDFs begins with an inaccessible source document.
Both resources are available from www.techdis.ac.uk/accessibilityessentials along with the other two in the series AE1 - Making electronic documents more readable, and AE3 - Creating accessible presentations with PowerPoint.
Kindest regards,
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From: Discussion list for disabled students and their support staff. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of John Conway
Sent: 12 February 2009 08:40
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: freeware screen reader and PDFs
Sorry to ask such a basic question but:
Is there a clear and simple set of instructions to give to those who
make inaccessible PDFs to explain how to do it properly? I'd love
something to circulate to a couple of colleagues! Personally I try to
stop PDFs being used here but its impossible for some documents.
Ta
John
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From: Discussion list for disabled students and their support staff.
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of E.A. Draffan
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 10:50 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: freeware screen reader and PDFs
Apologies if I have missed the original question and this is repeating
something already said - there are two screen readers that are free for
use with the Windows operating systems - Thunder - a download from
http://www.screenreader.net and NVDA available from
http://www.nvda-project.org/ Neither will cope with inaccessible image
PDFs but Webbie has a free reader for accessible pdfs available at
http://www.webbie.org.uk/download.htm
Abby Fine Reader http://finereader.abbyy.com/?param=137516 has a
digital capture OCR and screen shot reader also used by TextHelp Read
and Write as has been said - obviously not free and sadly I doubt the
Robobraille conversion will be able to make an MP3 version if the PDF is
not accessible. http://www.robobraille.org/invitation_to_test
I am sorry if I have muddled two questions!
Best wishes E.A.
Mrs E.A. Draffan
Learning Societies Lab,
ECS, University of Southampton,
Tel +44 (0)23 8059 7246
http://www.lexdis.ecs.soton.ac.uk
http://www.emptech.info
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From: Discussion list for disabled students and their support staff.
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of George Bell
Sent: 11 February 2009 11:49
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: freeware screen reader
If all else fails, there's always Window Narrator, which is built in
to XP an above.
George.
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From: Discussion list for disabled students and their support staff.
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mike Parry
Sent: 11 February 2009 10:38
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: freeware screen reader
Apologies if this has been dealt with elsewhere (I'm accessing the
list
via remote machine)...
but can anyone recommend a freeware screen reader for windows machines
TIA
Mike Parry
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