Adobe Acrobat 7.0 and accessibility

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Adobe is committed to providing solutions that improve document accessibility for people with disabilities such as blindness and motor impairments. As continuing demonstration of that commitment, Adobe has added a number of capabilities that improve the accessibility of both Adobe Acrobat 7.0 software and Adobe PDF.

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The new features and enhancements in Acrobat 7.0 address the needs of both users with disabilities and the authors of accessible content. Acrobat 7.0 and the free Adobe Reader® 7.0 software enable people with disabilities to access, read, and use Adobe PDF documents and forms—across multiple languages—more easily. And the improved tools for generating, reviewing, and enhancing Adobe PDF files found in the Acrobat 7.0 family simplify the creation and distribution of electronic content that is optimized for accessibility. Following is a summary of the new key capabilities. Appendix I provides a table that summarizes the key accessibility capabilities within the Acrobat 7.0 family.
Read PDF forms out loud
Previous versions of Acrobat and Reader synthesized text in PDF documents into speech using standard Microsoft® Windows® and Mac OS X text-to-speech capabilities. With Acrobat 7.0 and Reader 7.0, you can now use this capability to read forms aloud as well. Once you set your preferences to read form fields out loud, the simple act of tabbing to a form field causes Acrobat and Reader to read the text in it aloud.
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