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Figure 28 Acrobat 9 Pro Accessibility Report

Because the Full Check feature is unable to distinguish between essential and nonessential content types,

some issues it reports don’t affect readability. It’s a good idea to review all issues to determine which ones

require correction.

Accessibility Full Check Options

• Create Accessibility Report . Creates an HTML report of accessibility issues, which is

opened in the navigation pane and saved in the location indicated by the Folder field.

• Include Repair Hints In Accessibility Report . Adds suggestions for fixing accessibility

problems to the HTML report or comments.

• Create Comments In Document . Adds comments to the document that indicate

accessibility problems. Delete all accessibility comments from the PDF after you repair the

accessibility issues.

• Page Range . The range of pages to check.

• Name . The set of accessibility criteria to check. For the Section 508 and W3C guidelines,

the options area includes a Browse button that links to the website for the respective

guidelines. Select Adobe PDF to choose from options for the Adobe PDF accessibility

standard

• Alternative Descriptions Are Provided . Checks for tagged figures that are missing

alternate text.

• Text Language Is Specified . Checks for paragraphs that don’t have a language specified

for them. Setting the language for an entire document in the Document Properties dialog

box corrects all errors related to this option.

Making PDF Accessible with Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro