Six Ways to Manage PDFs More Efficiently with JAWS

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August 21, 2025

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

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