Adobe 22020807 Accessibility Guide - Page 7

| 3 Introduction meaningful descriptions as alternative text. Alternative text and tool tips can aid many users, including those with learning disabilities. Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader Accessibility Features Accessibility features in Adobe Acrobat 9 and Adobe Reader 9 fall into two broad categories: features to make the reading of PDF documents more accessible and features to create accessible PDF documents. To create accessible PDF documents, you must use Acrobat, not Reader. Features for Accessible Reading of PDFs • Preferences and commands to optimize output for assistive software and devices, such as saving as accessible text for a Braille printer • Preferences and commands to make navigation of PDFs more accessible, such as automatic scrolling and opening PDFs to the last page read • Accessibility Setup Assistant for easy setting of most preferences related to accessibility • Keyboard alternates to mouse actions • Reflow capability to temporarily present the text of a PDF in a single easy-to-read column • Read Out Loud text-to-speech conversion. • Support for screen readers and screen magnifiers Features for Creating Accessible PDFs • Creation of tagged PDFs from authoring applications • Conversion of untagged PDFs to tagged PDFs from within Acrobat • Security setting that allows screen readers to access text while preventing users from copying, printing, editing, and extracting text • Ability to add text to scanned pages to improve accessibility • Tools for editing reading order and document structure • Tools for creating accessible PDF forms Though Acrobat Standard provides some functionality for making existing PDFs accessible, you must use Acrobat Pro or Acrobat Pro Extended to perform certain tasks-such as editing reading order or editing document structure tags-that may be necessary to make some PDF documents and forms accessible (See "Table 1: Features for Creating Accessible PDF Files by Product" on page 3). Table 1: Features for Creating Accessible PDF Files by Product Reader 9 Acrobat 9 Standard Acrobat 9 Pro Acrobat 9 Pro Extended Create PDF documents from any application that prints • • • Convert Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, and Access files to PDF with onebutton ease* • • • * Windows Only Adobe Acrobat 9 and PDF Accessibility