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USING ACROBAT X STANDARD

Accessibility, tags, and reflow

Last updated 10/11/2011

page it has already read aloud. For instructions on setting the default page layout to Single Page, see “Preferences for

viewing PDFs” on page 14.

This option corresponds to the Only Read The Currently Visible Pages option in the Accessibility Setup Assistant.

• Read The Entire Document This option can be best if you use a screen reader that has its own navigation and search

tools and that is more familiar to you than the tools in Acrobat. This option corresponds to the Read The Entire

Document At Once option in the Accessibility Setup Assistant.

• For Large Documents, Only Read The Currently Visible Pages This option is selected by default and is usually best

if you use a screen reader with long or complex PDFs. It allows Acrobat to deliver an entire small document but revert

to page-by-page delivery for large documents. This preference corresponds to the For Large Documents, Only Read

The Currently Visible Pages option in the Accessibility Setup Assistant.

Confirm Before Tagging Documents When selected, lets the user confirm the options that will be used before Acrobat

prepares an untagged document for reading. Tagging can be a time-consuming procedure, especially for larger

documents. This preference corresponds to the Confirm Before Tagging Documents option in the Accessibility Setup

Assistant.

Read Out Loud Options Set preferences in this section to control volume, speed, and pitch of the voice used for Read

Out Loud. You can choose to use the default voice or any of the voices provided by your operating system. You can

also use the up and down arrows to read blocks of text. These preferences do not have corresponding options in the

Accessibility Setup Assistant.

Navigate and control the application with the keyboard

You can navigate by using the keyboard instead of the mouse. Several keyboard access features are available in Mac

OS; see the documentation for your operating system for details. In Windows, some of the keyboard shortcuts used to

navigate in Acrobat differ from the keyboard shortcuts used in other Windows applications.

When you open Acrobat within a web browser, keyboard commands are mapped to the web browser first.

Consequently, some keyboard shortcuts are not available in Acrobat or are available only after you shift the focus to

the PDF.

For information about accessibility features, see www.adobe.com/accessibility.