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murrjames
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February 21, 2017
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Is there a difference between accessible PDF for screen reader and Accessible PDF for Voice Activation software?

  • February 21, 2017
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I make accessible PDFs, they pass PAC 2 and Adobe tests.

A person who uses voice activation can't use the form.

How is this dealt with?

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Correct answer mattmay

No, they're not equivalent. There's no common interface for voice recognition; each tool has its own tricks for interacting with each application. No tools that I know of use the accessibility API primarily to access forms.

One thing tools like Dragon can do is called MouseGrid. That should be sufficient for focusing on the first field of the form, and then the user should be able to tab from field to field from there.

Using your mouse with MouseGrid

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mattmayCorrect answer
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March 17, 2017

No, they're not equivalent. There's no common interface for voice recognition; each tool has its own tricks for interacting with each application. No tools that I know of use the accessibility API primarily to access forms.

One thing tools like Dragon can do is called MouseGrid. That should be sufficient for focusing on the first field of the form, and then the user should be able to tab from field to field from there.

Using your mouse with MouseGrid

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