Adobe Reader

Adobe® Reader® 7.0 is free software that people can use to read and access the information contained within Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files. To date, Adobe has distributed more than 500 million copies of Adobe Reader worldwide and a Google search of the surface Web reveals over 250 million PDF files.

How to configure Adobe Reader 7.0 to work with your assistive technology

Adobe Reader 7.0 contains many capabilities specifically designed to make it easier for people with disabilities to read PDF files, regardless of whether the files have been optimized for accessibility. It leverages accessibility functions built into Windows® and Macintosh operating systems, and allows adjustment of user preferences to optimize the reading experience for a variety of disabilities.

About Adobe Reader 7.0 and accessibility

Using Adobe Reader 7.0, people with disabilities can:

• Read PDF files and forms aloud using standard Windows and Mac OS X operating systems’ text-to-speech synthesis
• Use advanced, Windows based screen reader products
• Quickly evaluate the accessibility of an Adobe PDF file
• Adjust the font size in the Windows navigation panels
• Zoom in on text and reflow tagged PDF files to fit any size view
• View documents in high-contrast mode
• Automatically optimize Acrobat and Reader for use with assistive technology
• Improve the reading experience of untagged Adobe PDF files
• Choose alternate reading orders
• Take advantage of Japanese language support
• Use keyboard navigation
• Reflow untagged PDF files
• Set your preferences so the cursor automatically appears at the beginning of a page
• Automatically open Adobe PDF files to the last text read
• Review search results using keyboard navigation
• Save Adobe PDF content as text (TXT)