Well, first off, footnotes are exactly that, notes that appear at
the foot of the page (or in some cases, at the end of the
document). These aren't supposed to be read inline with the rest
of the text, it's a design that has been around since the printed
word has existed. Even sighted folks reading documents have to
click on the footnote, read it, then return to the text, this is
normal, and expected behavior. What you're asking for is a
departure from this standard behavior, and I know of no way to
accomplish it, though I'm sure it's been done at some time or
other. As to your other questions, I have had very little success
working directly with pdf files to obtain comments, (or to add
them as well). I am not a fan of pdf files for this (and other)
reason(s), but folks have to use what's on tap, whether it's
convenient or not so using workarounds are the order of the day.
If others have solutions for the comments problem, I too would
like to ehar them. I almost always wind up converting the pdf to
some other format before I can do anything useful with them,
especially on windows. I've had better success on OSX, but I'm
guessing that isn't an option here.
On 7/22/2017 3:22 AM, Felix G. wrote:
Hello list!
I'm doing some research for someone regarding
accessible pdf and Word documents with NVDA, and
some questions came up which I thought I'd post here
in case anyone has an idea or a suggestion. I'm not
an experienced Word user except very basic
procedures, and not a pdf expert either, so here
goes:
In Word, I can't seem to find a way to have footnotes
read within the flow of text. That is, the position of
the footnote is announced but not the footnote text
itself within context. The affected user can of course
navigate to the footnote then return to the textual
context but she would like to switch to the mode of
operation I just described.
In pdf files, it seems a highlight is indicated with a
button which has the state of "reduced." When expanded
by hitting enter on it, it turns into an empty text edit
field. Also, the actual highlighted text seems to be
skipped in the flow of reading.
Comments in pdfs also seem problematic. They appear as
edit fields in the text, but when hitting enter on them I
can't get to their contents. Rather, my arrowing is passed
directly through to Adobe Reader and triggers navigation
within the document.
Constructive ideas very much appreciated as the user
requires the functionality for her studies.
Thanks in advance and kind regards,
Felix
