PDF Accessibility Repair Workflow Overview
PDF Accessibility
Repair Workflow Overview
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- Hierarchy of Tasks (Here There Be Monsters)
- Step 1: Is the PDF Text-Based?
- Step 2: Does the PDF Contain Links?
- Step 3: Does the PDF have multimedia?
- Step 4: Is the PDF a Form with Fillable Form Fields?
- Step 5: Tags
- Step 6: Run Accessibility Checker
- Quiz - PDF Accessibility Repair Workflow Overview
- Summary
Brief PDF accessibility overview
This module describes the overall process of creating accessible PDFs. Various types of PDFs are encountered:
- scanned image-based PDFs (that do not have searchable text)
- text-based PDFs (that have searchable text but no tags)
Whenever possible, accessibility should be incorporated directly into a word-processing document. This lessens the repair workload required in Adobe Acrobat. It is significantly more work and is time-consuming to remediate in Adobe Acrobat DC than it takes in Microsoft Word.
For example, if changes are only made in the PDF and not in Microsoft Word, a lot of accessibility work will need to be done each time in Adobe Acrobat DC if the document is updated.
Use the following steps as a guide to help check PDF accessibility. This module is meant to lay down the foundation of what you need to know.
At the end of this module, you should be able to:
- Describe how to approach the different type of PDFs based on whether the PDF is image or text-based.
- List the steps in creating an accessible PDF.