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The NVDA PDF reader experience

The NVDA PDF reader experience

From the course: Creating Accessible PDFs

The NVDA PDF reader experience

- [Instructor] There's no better way to ensure a document is compliant, than to actually read it using assistive technology. Doing so gives you a true experience of how someone using assistive technology will experience reading the document. It also ensures that areas of your document that you might not be sure about, are reading correctly. Or allows you to make an adjustment so that it is read correctly. Let me show you how this document reads using NVDA. And I'm going to go ahead and launch NVDA. (NVDA opening bell rings) - [NVDA] Two Trees, Olive Oil, employee handbook, Adobe Acrobat Pro DC, DMaria, Ann, 1 slash 22 Y. - [Instructor] So when a document opens up, you know, one of the key things that I want to explain, and one of the common mistakes that people make is they'll download JAWS, or they'll download NVDA, they'll open it up, and they'll just start hitting the arrow keys on their keyboard. Thinking that…

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