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From: Bevi Chagnon | PubCom
Date: Jun 20, 2011 11:33AM

As an Acrobat & accessibility trainer, I think one culprit is the dialogue
screen for Security in Acrobat.
It's one of the most confusing things to teach newcomers.

(As a trainer, I can tell when the user interface is faulty by how long it
takes me to teach that topic, how many glazed eyeballs I see in my audience,
and how often my students resort to following my handouts/recipes rather
than thinking logically on their own.)

Even if an author was aware of accessibility needs, he'd have a hard time
figuring out what settings to click to get the correct check boxes and
pull-down items selected for an accessible and secure PDF.

A redesign of the dialogue screen by Adobe would greatly help this issue.

-Bevi Chagnon