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Note: The TouchUp Reading Order tool in Acrobat Professional enables you to closely examine and fix reading order
problems. This tool is described in detail in "Section 11: Repairing reading order and basic tagging problems" on page 59.
You should perform an accessibility Full Check on a tagged PDF document before you begin repairing the document,
and occasionally thereafter to test your progress. You should also check the document one final time when you have
finished the PDF accessibility workflow.
Note: To fix problems with reading order or to add missing descriptions to figures, form fields, and links, you must use the
TouchUp Reading Order tool or the tag tree in Acrobat 7.0 Professional.
Performing an accessibility Full Check
In Acrobat 7.0 Professional, you can run an accessibility Full Check, which analyzes a document to find inaccessible
content. This tool lets you choose the kinds of accessibility problems to look for, and it creates a detailed error report
after the checking is complete. The error report provides links (or comments) to specific errors on a page, as well as
suggestions for fixing them. You can save these reports for later reference.
To run an accessibility Full Check, choose Advanced > Accessibility > Full Check.
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Note: Performing an accessibility Full Check on an entire document at once can be time-consuming. If checking a
document is taking too long, you can stop the process by pressing Esc, and then choose a smaller page range in the
Accessibility Full Check dialog box.
Full Check options
The Accessibility Full Check dialog box includes the following options:
• Alternative Descriptions Are Provided.
text.
• Text Language Is Specified.
them. Setting the language for an entire document in the Document Properties dialog box corrects all errors that
are related to this option.
• Reliable Character Encoding Is Provided.
readers.
• All Content Is Contained In The Document Structure.
may have overlooked during tagging. Adding these elements to the tag tree (if necessary) ensures that a screen
reader can present the content to a user.
• All Form Fields Have Descriptions.
• List And Table Structure Is Correct.
tables meet the requirements of tagged PDF.
• Tab Order Is Consistent With The Structure Order.
document's structure.
To correct errors that Full Check reports, you must use the TouchUp Reading Order tool or edit the tag tree in
Acrobat Professional. Instructions for these tasks are provided in Sections 11and 13 of this guide.
Section 10: Evaluating Adobe PDF documents for accessibility problems
Select this option to check for tagged figures that are missing alternate
Select this option to check for paragraphs that do not have a language specified for
Select this option to check for fonts that are inaccessible to screen
Select this option to check for form fields that are missing descriptions.
Select this option to ensure that the tags that have been generated for lists and
Select this option to ensure that the tags properly reflect the
Select this option to check for page elements that Acrobat
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