Re: [orca-list] Strange reading of a certain pdf in firefox

[José Vilmar Estácio de Souza <vilmar informal com br>]

Hi Joanie.
Thank you for the answer. Good to know the problem wasn't between the 
chair and the keyboard.

On 6/25/21 9:59 AM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Taking a quick look at the accessible text exposed by firefox, entire
> paragraphs are exposed as single lines. Wherever the line break is,
> there isn't even a space. For instance on page 4, the "line" has 1842
> character and "words" like identifysoftware, donot, and themeasurement.
> In other words, it's a mess.
>
> Looking at what we get from Chromium's accessible text implementation,
> everything I've glanced at so far looks correct/normal.
>
> On Fri, 2021-06-25 at 06:30 -0300, José Vilmar Estácio de Souza wrote:
> > Hi Peter.
> > What I don't understand is why the problem doesn't seem to happen
> > when I
> > use chromium to read the same pdf.
> > Thanks.
> >
> > On 6/25/21 6:25 AM, Peter Vágner wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I think this might be an authoring issue.
> > >
> > > This looks like a fillable form with nothing to fill with the text
> > > drawn on all over the page. The PDF is not tagget thus no
> > > formatting
> > > is visible to assistive tools.
> > >
> > > To get a tagged PDF out of this I can use ocrmypdf OCR-ing the
> > > content
> > > however that might have different issues as ocr is not a
> > > replacement
> > > for digital content.
> > >
> > > can also read it in evince however the document formatting is all
> > > on
> > > one long line.
> > >
> > >
> > > Greetings
> > >
> > >
> > > Peter
> > >
> > >
> > > Dňa 25. 6. 2021 o 10:01 José Vilmar Estácio de Souza napísal(a):
> > > > Hi all.
> > > >
> > > > I don't know if the problem is in the orca, the FF or  between
> > > > the
> > > > chair and the keyboard, but the fact is that when I try to access
> > > > the
> > > > pdf that is on the
> > > > https://www.sonarsource.com/docs/CognitiveComplexity.pdf   link,
> > > > it
> > > > reads strangely.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Some words are read by orca as if thy had a space in the middle.
> > > >
> > > > For exemple:
> > > >
> > > > "module" is read as "m odule", "metric" as "m etric" and so one.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Apparently the same pdf is read correctly by chromium.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Since I'm between the chair and the keyboard, am I doing
> > > > something
> > > > wrong?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.
> > > >
> > > >
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