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February 25, 2023
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Accessibility I am legally blind

  • February 25, 2023
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I am legally blind with tunnel vision and have to enlarge everything to project it onto a TV screen to read.  I am using Adobe Acrobat 8 which is reliable in its OCR and I use Photoshop to improve the contrast of documents in order to run OCR on Acrobat extracting the pages of very large pdf files.  Adobe has discontinued the licenses on this, so if I ever get a new computer and that is highly unlikely as i am on disability, i am screwed.  My computer is from 2015.
Can you do two things, create a bundle for the Blind and disabled to do these things with documents so they can see them, and I am happy to explain it all to you as to what I am doing.  Fortunately I learned how to do this when I was fully sighted.  So I know the keyboard shortcuts in the process of conveting images of pdfs in photoship so I can make them somewhat legible in Acrobat to run the OCR.  
if you cannot create a process that is free for the disabled to use these products, can you point me in the direction of companies that will make it so the blind and visually impaired can use those atributes in free software or can you allow those of us who are blind to continue using the products and their codes to enable them under a special program for the disabled.  I can prove I am blind from my doctors reports and I am not going to get that eyesight back, it's gone.  Please forgive my typing as i cannot see what I am typing at the moment as the thin black text and white background is unreadable.  Yeah I can use the high contrast feature in Windows but usually that doesnt work with posting online.  .

 

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Eric Dumas
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 25, 2023

Hi, I am sorry about your situation.

This forum is for technical issues or users seeking advice. I posted your suggestion in https://acrobat.uservoice.com. 

In the past I worked with colleagues that used the text-to-speech features to listen to documents they could not read. 

I am curious, would it help if a website like this one offered a dark mode? black backgroud with white text.

 

Participant
February 26, 2023
Yes dark mode is great, the glare of a white background just wipes out the
letters of the words. think of it as trying to read light grey text on a
white background. Or like those street maps that are a light gray and
white roads, they are completely useless to me. I usually use
satellite maps so I can have the contrast to see what is going on.

Thanks,

James Pepper
Participant
April 28, 2025

Now more than 2 years has passed and this (obviuous) idea has not yet been implemented.  I also could use black background and white type.  Microsoft allows such a configuration.  Why is Adobe not providing necessary assistance?