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Adobe® Acrobat® 9 Pro Accessibility Guide: 

Using the Accessibility Checker

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Page 1: ...Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Accessibility Guide Using the Accessibility Checker ...

Page 2: ...tries AutoCAD is either a registered trade mark or a trademark of Autodesk Inc in the USA and or other countries GeoTrust is a registered trademark of GeoTrust Inc Microsoft and Windows are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and or other countries All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners 2008 Adobe Systems Incorporated A...

Page 3: ... the Acrobat 9 Pro Accessibility Checker 1 Introduction 1 Quick Check 1 Quick Check Results 1 Full Check 1 Accessibility Full Check Options 3 Continue Checking Until All Issues are Addressed 3 Additional Validation Techniques 4 ...

Page 4: ...Contents Making PDF Accessible with Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro ii ...

Page 5: ...Try different reading orders using the Reading Preferences panel Quick Check has found no underlying document structure that Acrobat can use for reading order Acrobat will analyze the reading order of the document using the current analysis method set in the Reading Order preference but this PDF might not be read correctly by screen readers If the reading order seems wrong select a different optio...

Page 6: ...ve a large document running a full check one section at a time can be more efficient Select an accessibility standard Adobe PDF Section 508 U S or W3C from the Name menu and then select the accessibility options to check for The standard that you select in the Name menu determines which accessibility options are available Click Start Checking The results are displayed in the left panel which also ...

Page 7: ...onts that are inaccessible to screen readers and other assistive software Fonts must contain enough information for Acrobat to correctly extract all the characters to text If one or more fonts don t allow for the correct extraction of all the characters the PDF is inaccessible All Content Is Contained In The Document Structure Checks for page elements that may have been overlooked during tagging A...

Page 8: ...cking the accessibility of a PDF file Use Reflow view to quickly check reading order Use Read Out Loud to experience the document as it will be experienced by readers who use this text to speech conversion tool Save the document as accessible text and then read the saved text file in a word processing application to experience the document as it will be experienced by readers who use a braille pri...

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