About accessibility preferences – Adobe Acrobat 7 Professional User Manual
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About accessibility preferences
Adobe Acrobat provides several settings that help make PDF files more accessible for
visually impaired and motion-impaired users. These settings change how PDF documents
appear on-screen and are read by a screen reader. They also allow users to navigate
documents using only keyboard shortcuts. The Accessibility Setup Assistant provides on-
screen instructions for setting preferences in Acrobat.
You can select all of these settings in the Preferences dialog box, as well as preferences
that aren't available by using the assistant. Specifically, you can set your Multimedia
preferences to hear available descriptions for video and audio attachments, and your
Reading preferences to read form fields out loud. For a list of keyboard shortcuts for
Adobe Acrobat, see
. For more information about how users
with disabilities access PDF documents, visit the Adobe website at