#ADOBE READER ACCESSIBILITY CHECKER PDF#
#ADOBE READER ACCESSIBILITY CHECKER MANUAL#

One step in the Make Accessible wizard is to recognize text using Optical Character Recognition. Check for Images with Missing Alternate Text.Recognize Text using OCR (See note following this list).Review document description (Title, Author, etc.).The Make Accessible wizard runs through the following options: Save an alternate copy of your document before running this tool. Whereas the Check Accessibility tool will test your document and present a report at the end describing what needs to be fixed and/or reviewed, the Make Accessible wizard actually opens up all the relevant dialog and settings boxes and asks you to review and revise them one at a time, so that by the time you're done, the document is (almost) accessible. The Make Accessible wizard will walk you through a number of steps needed to make your document accessible. These are explained later in the article. Some items, like a logical reading order, cannot be accurately assessed by an automated tool and require your attention.

#ADOBE READER ACCESSIBILITY CHECKER MANUAL#

Checks that require manual review have a blue question mark icon.

Example: When exporting documents from Microsoft Word, the document title frequently does not transfer over, so you may be prompted to re-enter the document title.

You can right-click or ctrl-click on the item, opening up a dropdown menu with links that explain the issue in more detail, and that provide shortcuts to address the errors.

Checks that fail will be flagged with a red 'x'.

Checks that pass will have a green check box.

This will automatically generate a report that lists all the accessibility issues found on the document. If you're unsure what to test, leave all the default options selected. This will open up a dialog box where you can select which checks you want to perform. Under the Tools sidebar, select the Accessibility icon, then the Accessibility Check option. The Check Accessibility tool will perform a variety of tests to verify that most accessibility criteria are met. Guidelines Using Acrobat's Accessibility ToolsĪcrobat has two ways of performing automated accessibility tests. Once you add the tools to the sidebar, the Add button changes to Open, as seen in the screenshot.

You might also use the Scan & OCR tool and the Prepare Form tool in later accessibility testing steps, so add those tools while you are here.Click the 'Add' button on each and it will be added to the Tools sidebar. Under the Tools tab, find Accessibility and Action Wizard. Add the Accessibility and Action Wizard tools to the tools pane of Adobe Acrobat.SAVE OFTEN. Some steps in Adobe Acrobat cannot be undone.

#ADOBE READER ACCESSIBILITY CHECKER PDF#

If you make accessibility fixes directly to the PDF, then go back to the source document to make content changes, and re-export the PDF, you'll need to make those PDF accessibility changes all over again.

If you are starting with a file that you exported from Microsoft Word or other content editing interface, go back to that source document and make as many accessibility tweaks as possible, then re-export the document to PDF.

If you are starting with a scan of a journal or other physical media, review the Scanned PDF and Optical Character Recognition article.

Those rules apply to all documents, including PDFs.

Familiarize yourself with the guidelines in the accessible documents overview article.

PDF accessibility testing and remediation can be a labor-intensive process to make it easier, consider the following approaches before beginning work on any PDFs: Before working on a PDF: This article details the tools and techniques to maximize the accessibility of any PDFs you create.

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