| 45 Acrobat 9 Pro PDF Accessibility Repair Workflow

• This document’s security settings prevent access by screen readers. Quick Check has

found that the PDF has security settings that interfere with screen readers’ ability to extract

text for conversion to speech. You may be able to use a screen reader with this document if

your assistive technology product is registered with Adobe as a Trusted Agent. Contact

your assistive technology product vendor.

• This document appears to contain no text. It may be a scanned image. Quick Check has

found that the PDF contains no searchable text, probably because the document consists

entirely of one or more scanned images. This means that screen readers, Read Out Loud,

Reflow view, and most other accessibility features—which rely on text as input—will not

work with this document

Full Check

Use Full Check to perform a more thorough check for many characteristics of accessible PDFs, such as the

use of fonts that can be mapped reliably to Unicode text.

Full Check checks a PDF for many of the characteristics of accessible PDFs.

You can choose which kinds of accessibility problems to look for and how you want to view the results.

• Choose Advanced > Accessibility > Full Check.

• Select options for how you want to view the results.

You can save the results as an HTML file or as comments that are located where the accessibility problems

are detected.

• Select a page range if you prefer to do a full check on individual sections of a document.

When you have 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 has helpful links and hints for repairing issues (See

“Figure 28 Acrobat 9 Pro Accessibility Report” on page 46)

If you created a report in step 2, the results are available in the selected folder. Clicking on the links

highlights the problem areas in the document. The Accessibility Checker panel also provides hints for repair

which you should follow

Making PDF Accessible with Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro