Six Ways to Manage PDFs More Efficiently with JAWS

Portable Document Format (PDF) files are commonly used to share information across multiple platforms and are often required in school and employment settings.

Objectives:

We’ll provide an overview of PDFs, discuss multiple ways to access, read, and interact with them, plus show you how to:

• Set the default application for opening PDFs
• Set Adobe Reader accessibility settings
• Process an untagged document
• Search for text in a PDF
• Change reading order on-the-fly
• Open a PDF in Word

Freedom Scientific Presenters:

Elizabeth Whitaker and Rachel Buchanan