New Acrobat X provides better support for screen readers

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Friday, 22 October 2010 16:46pm

The recently released Acrobat X has been significantly upgraded to work better with screen reader software.

The new features, listed on the Adobe accessibility website include:

  • Improved PDF scanning
  • A new ‘Action Wizard’ for addressing PDF accessibility issues
  • Improved Windows Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA) support to assist screen readers in accessing all elements of the software
  • Additional preferences
  • Extra ‘save as’ options to improve backwards compatibility

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