- From: Patrick Burke <burke@ucla.edu>
- Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 15:41:07 -0700
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
It may be worth checking out www.futureforms.com for some interesting demos & software. This is a proprietary solution that claims to bridge the paper/electronic form divide (using Activex controls & XML output). They seem to be making progress (compared to my earlier visits to the site), although I have no idea how well the software would work in a real-world situation. They have demo forms optimized for JFW, WindowEyes, MS speech, & their own Verbal-Eyes plugin. I did a quick test of the JFW version, & I was able to navigate through the fields pretty successfully. The only snag was that I didn't get any feedback on what I was entering in the fields (no speech or Braille echoing). As for PDF text conversion itself, it works independently of screen readers, so should be equally good/bad for them all. However, there was some noise a few months back about JAWS support for navigation within PDF docs (similar to the Virtual Cursor used to navigate Internet Explorer). However, again, when I last checked the feature list for the new Jaws 3.7 there was no mention of PDF. Patrick At 10:48 AM 8/2/00, Steven McCaffrey wrote: > The bottom line for all accessibility issues is test the resulting > page. If n-1 documents converted well, the n-th one may not. >The conversion tools are better now, but still the pages need to be tested >after conversion. >Do other screen readers work with > Acrobat 4.05 and do as well as Jaws?
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