What is good in Acrobat version 9 (I)
12. October 2008 von helmut
properties
Before later there should be discussed, why Adobe has spent not a little thought to accessibility during the release of version 9 of Acrobat (from my point of view), I want to describe first of all, why there are a few enhancements and how they work. I want to mention that these enhancements are grounded on basic requirements Adobe identified in their software architecture. So I would like to call them by-products.
Until version 9, changes in the dialogue window “Properties”, where it is possible to change the properties to a tag-element, where not taken over automatically. If the window was closed before jumping to another property field, the changes were gone. And unfortunately you have to change only one property mostly:
- To correct the tag-element. For example it is not possible to create a headline free of structure (<h>) with the Touch-Up-Read-Order Tool. So this property has to be changed by using this dialogue.
- Or when editing an alternative text for an image. Mostly the missing turn over is especially annoying, whether a good alternative text was designed.
Sometimes I was going mad with this behaviour. When I had forgotten to jump in another field of this window, before I closed the dialogue. And, of course, the changes were not saved when the document was closed.
This annoyance is gone with version 9 and this is really a nice change.
Why I think that this is a by-product could be seen in the fact, that these change is available within all comparable dialogue windows.
If anything speaks for the buying of version 9 it is this small enhancement.
