Specifying Accessibility Requirements - Adobe ACROBAT 9 HOW-TOS Manual

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Both Acrobat 9 and Adobe Reader 9 offer a wizard for configuring the
programs to optimize display and interaction for assistive devices.
To run the wizard, choose Advanced > Accessibility > Setup Assistant
to open the five-screen wizard. Click Next to move to each screen; click
Done when you have made selections on all screens.
Note
The wizard is the same in both Acrobat and Adobe Reader, aside from ref-
erences to the programs' names. In Adobe Reader, choose Document >
Accessibility Setup Assistant.
Look for these features on each screen:
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Screen 1. Choose the device you are working with: a screen reader,
a screen magnifier, or all options. You can also click the "Use recom-
mended settings and skip setup" button to close the wizard and apply
the preprogrammed settings.
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Screen 2. On this screen choose a high-contrast color scheme and
colors for fields, producing a page like the example shown in Figure 46.
Choose the option to disable text smoothing (producing sharper-
looking text). Since some assistive devices can have problems with
Acrobat's use of different cursors for different tools, you can select
"Always display the keyboard selection cursor. "
Figure 46 Be careful when designing documents that may be viewed using a high-
contrast color scheme. In this example, although it's easy to read the left sample, using a
high-contrast color scheme makes some of the text barely legible, as in the right sample.
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Set It Here, Set
It There
The Accessibility Setup
Assistant brings together
settings from a number of
panels in the Preferences
dialog:
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The options for reading
order and screen reading
are available in the
Reading Order Options
section of Preferences.
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The "Confirm before tag-
ging documents" option
is also in the Reading
preferences in the Screen
Reader Options section
of Preferences.
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The document colors
options are in the
Accessibility preferences.
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The form field color
preferences are in the
Forms preferences.
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Find other color settings
in the Full Screen,
Measuring, Spelling,
and Units & Guides
preferences.
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