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Results for Adobe Reader

Description

Adobe Reader software is a PDF file viewer that can view, search, digitally sign, verify, and print Adobe PDF files. It can be used to convert PDFs to text if they are accessible and not secure.

Accessibility Testing Results

Adobe Reader has good accessibility settings as well as good support for in-built AT. As its in -built reader can read only the PDF files that are accessible and cannot describe the user actions within the application, an external screen reader such as NVDA is necessary. The latest versions offer more control over what is read and zoom and reflow are good.

#	Test	Score	Summary
16	Built in accessibility checks		Reader works well with the Windows built-in AT. It also has its own reader which can be configured from the preferences menu.
17	Application works with External Assistive Technologies		Works well with NVDA and Lightning Express.
18	Text or other alternatives for image elements.		Alternate text tag offered for all image elements in the menu and NVDA reads them well.
19	Keyboard / Alternative input with focus		All the menu items can be reached using just the keyboard (using the shortcut keys), tab access is good and in a logical manner.
20	Labels for objects, fields or controls		Labels are well placed and self descriptive.
21	Audio alerts have visual cues		NA
22	Alternatives for Video / Animation		NA
23	Media events offer user control		User has the option of setting up subtitles, dubbed audio, supplement text captions and audio descriptions, whenever available.
24	Textual Information for screen reader		All user actions are spoken by the screen reader.
25	Keyboard shortcut keys offered		Reader works well with standard shortcut keys as well as with on screen keyboard. But there is no option to change the keyboard shortcuts from the application.
26	Save user preferences for style and zoom		Zoom option is available; font colour settings can be changed at any time and can also adopt the system default settings. But not possible to enlarge font options (other than by using zoom).
27	Timed events can be altered		Not applicable.
28	Change colours and contrast		Inbuilt high contrast setting can change the colour settings of the application but the interface colour cannot be changed from within the application.
29	Uniform and standardised presentation		Reader has got a very well laid out menu structure and its layout is consistent with the Windows operating system.
30	Documentation		Good online support is present for this application but it does not have a local help file. Online help file can be read well by NVDA.

Disability-Tailored Results

The following table shows how well the product performs for people with disabilities, as listed in the Disabilities section.

Percentages do not indicate how much of a site is accessible. They indicate the average figure of test results relevant to each disability. Select a disability to see which tests are relevant to it.

Activities you can do with Adobe Reader

• eReading