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Jaws not reading alt text, but reading "Graphic 14" or whatever #

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2009-03-18 12:48:00
raeben
Registered: Mar 18 2009
Posts: 2

Why does this occur? Is there some setting in Jaws ? Anyone know? Is it a memory issue?

I have had this problem from time to time, for NO apparent reason.

Acrobat 8 professional. Jaws 10 on Windows XP.

Thanks.

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8.0, Windows
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2009-04-03 11:50:55
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JoATMoN
Registered: Apr 3 2009
Posts: 1
Not sure how you are making your PDF, but if I were to guess, I would think that you were scanning in a document as "formatted text" in some kind of OCR program and then saving it as a PDF. Formatted text puts your text into a table and makes it so that the text is unreadable by screen readers, which is carried over into the PDF. (it basically see's the text as a "graphic" where each table would be considered a different graphic depending on how you set the order of the text/graphic boxes)

To figure it out more, I would have to know how you are making the document.
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