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Mike Jones 23
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April 28, 2020
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Accessibility Checker - doesn't see alternate text tags

  • April 28, 2020
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When I open my PDF in Acrobat Pro DC, I launch the alternate text tool and add text to about 500 images. After I've finished entering all of the Alternate Text, I run Accessibility Checker, and it doesn't see any of what I entered earlier. Any thoughts?

 

Is there a specific order of operations for making a PDF 100% "Accessible?"

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ls_rbls
ls_rbls
Community Expert
April 29, 2020

Hi,

 

Did you run a "Full Report"?

 

Use the findings of the full report in combination with the Print Production Tool --->Preflight--->>PDF Fixups --->> Analyze and Repair.   You can also customize your own preflight profile to perform testing before you commit to an automatic repair.

 

If that doesn't work the Adobe Helpx guidance recommends to re-create the PDF. There are occasions that PDF Fixups wizard won't be able to fix evertthing.

 

The most important question is, how did you created the PDF.

 

Let's say, that  you used MS Word document to create a document, and then exported it to Adobe  PDF. The first step that most of us seem to miss is to perform an accessibility test  in MS Word fbefore exporting to another file format, for example.

 

MS Word has also an Accessibility Checker. This will allow you to perform the necessary on-the-spot corrections before you plublish you convert the document increasing the chances of a succesful export to PDF.

Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com
Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com
Brainiac
April 29, 2020

General procedures are to add the Alt-text in the source document (example, in MS Word), not after the PDF has been made.

 

This ensures that the PDF Maker conversion tool (or other manufacturer's converter) is encoding the Alt-text as the PDF is made, and hopefully correctly. There were some encoding problems with Alt-text in previous versions of Acrobat (and PDF Maker, as well) that threw off the accessibility checker and also didn't allow screen readers to voice the Alt-text.

 

Question: what version of Acrobat Pro are you using? If you can, give us platform and build/version number from "About Adobe Acrobat Pro DC".

 

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