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USING ACROBAT 9 STANDARD 267 Accessibility, tags, and reflow Set the document language Setting the document language in a PDF enables some screen readers to switch to the appropriate language. You can set the document language for an entire document with Acrobat Pro, Acrobat Pro Extended, or Acrobat Standard. You can set the document language for specific portions of a multilanguage document with Acrobat Pro or Acrobat Pro Extended. • To set the language for an entire document, choose File > Properties. Then select a language from the Language menu in the Reading Options area of the Advanced tab. • To set the language for an entire document to a language not in the Language menu, choose File > Properties. Then enter the ISO 639 code for the language in the Language field in the Reading Options area of the Advanced tab. For more information about ISO 639, see www.loc.gov/standards. Prevent security settings from interfering with screen readers A document author can specify that no part of an accessible PDF is to be copied, printed, extracted, commented on, or edited. This setting could interfere with a screen reader's ability to read the document, because screen readers must be able to copy or extract the document's text in order to convert it to speech. To maintain document security while allowing screen readers access to text, use one of the following settings: • For low-encryption-level security, select Enable Copying Of Text, Images, And Other Content in the Password Security - Settings dialog box. • For high-encryption-level security, select Enable Text Access For Screen Reader Devices For The Visually Impaired in the Password Security - Settings dialog box. This option overrides the document's security settings only for the purpose of giving assistive software, such as screen readers, access to the content. If your assistive technology product is registered with Adobe as a Trusted Agent, you can read PDFs that might be inaccessible to another assistive technology product. Acrobat recognizes when a screen reader or other product is a Trusted Agent and overrides security settings that would typically limit access to the content for accessibility purposes. However, the security settings remain in effect for all other purposes, such as to prevent printing, copying, extracting, commenting, or editing text. More Help topics "Securing documents with passwords" on page 216 About watermarks and screen readers You can add a watermark to a tagged PDF without also adding it to the tag tree. Not having the watermark appear in the tag tree is helpful for people who are using screen readers, because they won't hear the watermark read as document content. The best way to add a watermark that doesn't interfere with screen readers is to insert an untagged PDF of the watermark into a tagged PDF. More Help topics "Add and edit watermarks" on page 113 Last updated 9/30/2011