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/.
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New Acrobat/Reader DC on the Mac works with VoiceOver “With Adobe Acrobat DC and Reader DC, for the first time, Mac OS X users will be able to use the built-in VoiceOver screen-reader to create, edit and read accessible PDF documents!”. When I open a pdf document in Adobe Reader, it asks me to prepare the untagged document for reading with assistive software. I press the start button and it says the document is being processed. However, when the document window comes up, I can't find the document area. Javelin PDF Reader can launch a PDF in full screen to make reading easier, and you can just click the screen to move down the PDF pages. The download size of Javelin PDF Reader. Part 2: Top 5 PDF Audio Reader for Mac #1: Text2Speech. Text2Speech is a PDF Audio Reader that can be used with Mac. It is downloadable from the (Apple) App Store and for additional features you can purchase or upgrade your version into the paid version Text2Speech Pro.
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PDF Studio Viewer is a Free PDF Viewer for Windows, Mac and Linux.
Your OS is:
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Platform | Download | Instructions |
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Windows: Windows 10, Windows 8 & 8.1, Windows 7, Vista, XP, Server, NT, etc… | Windows 64-Bit | Windows 32-Bit Microsoft Store Download | Windows Instructions |
macOS: 10.14 (Mojave), 10.13 (High Sierra), 10.12 (Sierra), 10.11, 10.10, 10.9, 10.8 | macOS Installer Download Mac App Store Download | macOS Instructions |
Linux: Not sure which Linux? | Linux 64 Download | Linux 32 Download | Linux 64 Instructions Linux 32 Instructions |
Other Unix: Raspbian (Raspberry Pi), AIX, Solaris Intel, Solaris Sparc, HP-UX | Unix Download | Unix Instructions |
Windows Instructions:
- Instructions
- After downloading, double-click PDFStudioViewer_win.exe .
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Mac OS X Instructions:
- Instructions
- After downloading, the installer should launch automatically and create an icon on the desktop.
- The installer is a standard PackageMaker installer packaged inside a disk image. The operating system should recognize the files and launch the installer automatically.
- If the installer doesn’t start on its own:
- Double click on the installation file PDFStudioViewer_mac.dmg to mount the disk image, then double click on the mounted image.
- Finally double click on the installer PDF Studio Viewer Installer.
- Notes
- PDF Studio Viewer works on macOS 10.14 (Mojave), 10.13 (High Sierra), 10.12 (Sierra), Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan), Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite), Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks), 10.8 (Mountain Lion), 10.7 (Lion).
- After installation, the installer should remove the downloaded files automatically. If this does not happen, you can manually drag the files to the trash.
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Linux AMD 64 Instructions:
- Instructions
After downloading the installer, open a Terminal window and type the following two commands:- cd Downloads to go to the directory where you downloaded the installer.
- sh ./PDFStudioViewer_linux64.sh. This will start the installer.
To install PDF Studio on multiple computers through command-line, you may use our 64 bit Debian package (right-click and save link as) . This package will install PDF Studio in the “/opt” directory.
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Linux 32Bit Instructions:
- Instructions
After downloading the installer, open a Terminal window and type the following two commands:- cd Downloads to go to the directory where you downloaded the installer.
- sh ./PDFStudioViewer_linux.sh. This will start the installer.
To install PDF Studio on multiple computers through command-line, you may use our 32 bit Debian package (right-click and save link as) . This package will install PDF Studio in the “/opt” directory.
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Other Unix Instructions: AIX, Solaris, HP-UX
- Instructions
- After downloading the installer, open a shell and, cd to the directory where you downloaded the installer.
- At the prompt type: sh ./PDFStudioViewer_unix.sh . This will start the installer.
- Notes
- You need to install a Java 8 virtual machine. When available, we strongly recommend using the JVM distributed by Sun Oracle as our experience has been that other JVMs introduce a lot of issues in PDF Studio Viewer (GTK issue with toolbar spacing issues, no SWT support for native file browser, other bugs with image rendering). You can download one from Sun’s Java web site or contact your OS manufacturer.
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