Friday 28 October 2011

Acrobat Reader - Accessibility Options

There are a number of other simple things you can do to make your document more accessible.


Visibility


Zoom

A fast way to make your PDF document more readable is to change the Zoom.

Zoom can be changed:

  • from the   View > Zoom   menu option.
  • from the   Toolbar   (if shown, Toolbar is shown as default).
  • using the   Ctrl+Y, Ctrl+0, Ctrl+1, Ctrl+2, Ctrl+3, or Ctrl+4   keys.


Colour

Under Accessibility from the Preferences menu option, you can changing the Document Colors.

For example, you can choose to replace the page background and text colors, if this may make the document easier to read for you.



Navigating through Document


Automatic Scrolling

The Automatic Scrolling feature lets you move through a PDF document without relying on the mouse.

To Scroll Automatically:

  1. Choose View > Automatically Scroll.

The document will start scrolling slowly down your screen.


Use the keyboard to control speed and direction of scrolling.

  • Number keys to control the speed of the scrolling,
    with 9 being fast, and 0 being slow.

Use

  • up and down arrow keys, to change the direction of scrolling.
  • hyphen or minus key, to go backward.
  • left or right arrows, to go to the previous or next page.


Go to: Adobe - Accessibility - Overview blog entry.


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