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Section 10: Evaluating Adobe PDF
documents for accessibility problems
This section describes the two Acrobat tools that you should use for checking the extent of accessibility in Adobe PDF
documents. These tools enable you to identify figures that are missing alternate text and pages that have reading
order problems. It also highlights global accessibility problems, such as whether all the fonts in the document are
accessible to screen readers.
The information in this section applies to both Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional and Acrobat 7.0 Standard unless
otherwise noted.
Where you are in the PDF accessibility workflow
Two tools for checking the accessibility of Adobe PDF documents
Acrobat provides several ways for you to check the extent of accessibility of an Adobe PDF document. When you are
first evaluating a document, the two features that you will use most often are:
• The accessibility Full Check (Acrobat Professional only).
other problems. Full Check generates a detailed report of all problems, together with suggestions for fixing them.
• Reflow view.
Use this feature to quickly check the reading order of a document by flowing a page as one column
of text.
Use this tool to find figures that need alternate text and
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