Unless they made it with Accessability in mind, Jaws can't read it to me & I'd be completely S.O.L.
I wish PDF's were rendered as Plain Text instead of essentially a Bitmap, then there'd be no problem.
For the parts that *are* pictures (charts, graphs, photo's, etc) then have a special <EmbeddedElement=Picture; AltText="BlahBlahBlah"> bit of code where it appears, and the rest would be readable by programs like Jaws.
You can already protect the damned thing so it can't be edited, so claiming the image property of the *whole* document is a load of rubbish.
That takes care of layout, font, colours, Italics/Bold/Underlining, and everything else you want to protect, but leaves the text free for Screen Readers to parse.
*Sigh*
And I might as well wish for my vision back, because that's more likely to happen than Adobe & everyone whom creates PDF's to pull their heads out of their a3es.
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