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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Jun 20, 2011 11:39AM

Bevi,
Now would be a wonderful time to make some very specific suggestions for how to improve that dialog's messaging. I'm talking with the team about Acrobat 11 now.

Thanks,
AWK

Andrew Kirkpatrick
Group Product Manager, Accessibility
Adobe Systems

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-----Original Message-----
From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Bevi Chagnon | PubCom
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2011 1:33 PM
To: 'WebAIM Discussion List'
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Locked PDFs

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