Pete has been working at Adobe as a Quality Engineer for almost 5 years dealing with
Accessibility of PDF documents and the use of
Adobe Acrobat and Reader. In this tech talk, he’ll explain exactly what PDF means, then will take you through the process of downloading and installing
Adobe Reader, the free software Adobe provides for reading PDF documents.
When you start Adobe Reader for the first time after installation, Adobe Reader will discover if you have a screen reader like JAWS or
Window-Eyes running, and it will start a special wizard that will help you customize the program to make it easier to use with your
screen reader
. Pete will walk you through the entire wizard and explain the effects each of the
settings will have. Then, he’ll talk about some of the reasons that some PDF documents
are initially not able to be read by a screen reader, and talk about some of the
tools Adobe provides in its Acrobat program to make PDF documents more accessible.