Adobe Reader Features Download
The Accessibility Setup Assistant
A wizard for setting up almost all accessibility preferences at once based on your particular assistive technology. See Running the Accessibility Setup Assistant.
Support for assistive technology
Such as screen readers, screen magnifiers, and the accessibility features of the Windows and Mac OS operating systems.
Read Out Loud
A built-in text-to-speech synthesizer that you can use if you do not have access to a screen reader.
To enable the Read Out Loud. Select “Read Out Loud” from the “View” menu and then select one of the options listed below or the equivalent shortcut.
- Read This Page Only (Ctrl + Shift + V);
- Read To End of Document (Ctrl + Shift + B);
- Pause/Resume (Ctrl + Shift + C);
- Stop (Ctrl + Shift + E);
To change the default Read Out Loud attributes, select “Preferences” from the Edit“ menu (or press CTRL+K)and then select “Reading” from the list of categories on the left side of the window.
Several important attributes can be changed there:
- Volume;
- Voice;
- Pitch;
- Speed;
- Read form fields *;
Note 1: Some systems may not support the Read Out Loud tool.
Note 2: If a PDF document doesn't seem to be reading aloud in the most logical order, the document may not be adequately tagged and structured for optimal reading.
* By default “Read form fields” is not selected, so any form fields encountered will be bypassed. To navigate from field to field, use Tab to move forward and Shift + Tab to move backward. The text entered in the field is not read as it is typed, but it is read when the user leaves the field.
Reflow view
Allows you too read multicolumn layouts as one column of text. Reflowing a document eliminates the need for horizontal scrolling and changes the reading order to reflect either the order of the PDF tags, or if the document is untagged, tries to infer the correct reading order.
This is useful when you do not have a screen magnifier, or when you are using a PDA. To enable reflow, select “Reflow” from the “View” menu or press Ctrl + 4.
Auto-scrolling
Automatic scrolling reduces required keyboard actions. To enable automatic scrolling, select “Automatically Scroll” from the “View“ menu or press Ctrl + Shift + H. The other shortcuts are:
- Start/stop (Ctrl + Shift + H);
- Change scrolling speed (Number key 0-9 or Up and Down arrows);
- Change scrolling direction reverse/forward (Hyphen or minus (-) key);
- Previous/next page (Left or right arrow key);
Save as text
The option to save a PDF document to text for Braille or other output.To save a PDF document as accessible text:
- Select "Save As Text" from the "File" menu or press Alt+F, and then pressV);
- Activate the Save As Type drop-down menu (press Alt+T), and choose Text (Accessible) (*.txt);
- Name the file and locate the drive and folder where the file should be stored;
- Select Save or press Alt+S;
