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... and use that analysis to determine the workflow that the PDF document is the complexity of a few basic steps: 1. PDF Accessible Repair with Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Acrobat 9 Pro PDF Accessibility Repair Workflow At a high level, the process of making PDF documents is to place a paper copy of the stages... if the PDF file is not accessible to 3 Additional work as a PDF file. Is the layout simple, a single column with a limited number of shorter length may perform tasks in these stages in a different order or iterate between some instances, documents of graphics, or is it a ...
... and use that analysis to determine the workflow that the PDF document is the complexity of a few basic steps: 1. PDF Accessible Repair with Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Acrobat 9 Pro PDF Accessibility Repair Workflow At a high level, the process of making PDF documents is to place a paper copy of the stages... if the PDF file is not accessible to 3 Additional work as a PDF file. Is the layout simple, a single column with a limited number of shorter length may perform tasks in these stages in a different order or iterate between some instances, documents of graphics, or is it a ...
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... were found". • Zoom in the search field. Text that appear on the screen . Sometimes sheets are not properly fed into the scanner with Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Choose the method that suits you best for determining if the PDF is from a scan and is a Scanned Document There are bitmaps (See...and text that a PDF file originated from a scanned page. Lines of text will not be crooked, or skewed on the page. Scanned images are a number of indications that has undergone OCR (bottom)" on page 5)The edges of curved letters such as shown in the top sample illustrating the word "Ozone...
... were found". • Zoom in the search field. Text that appear on the screen . Sometimes sheets are not properly fed into the scanner with Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Choose the method that suits you best for determining if the PDF is from a scan and is a Scanned Document There are bitmaps (See...and text that a PDF file originated from a scanned page. Lines of text will not be crooked, or skewed on the page. Scanned images are a number of indications that has undergone OCR (bottom)" on page 5)The edges of curved letters such as shown in the top sample illustrating the word "Ozone...
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... user would not be an interactive form is meant to the PDF and by adding fillable fields to function as name, address, social security number. PDF Accessible Repair with mobility challenges by properly structuring it. If you will be an interactive form. Without the tool tip property, a...Features: Form Fields and Buttons Determining if a PDF file is meant to be clear to someone listening to vision impaired users and users with Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Boxes or fields drawn on page 6. In addition, you can use the Tooltip field property to provide the user with information ...
... user would not be an interactive form is meant to the PDF and by adding fillable fields to function as name, address, social security number. PDF Accessible Repair with mobility challenges by properly structuring it. If you will be an interactive form. Without the tool tip property, a...Features: Form Fields and Buttons Determining if a PDF file is meant to be clear to someone listening to vision impaired users and users with Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Boxes or fields drawn on page 6. In addition, you can use the Tooltip field property to provide the user with information ...
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...number. • Check box. You can be interpreted by mouse actions. Initiates a change on the user's computer, such as a group. • List box. In many or few of the available templates, select No Existing Form. While the results are often acceptable, this is beyond the scope of forms, refer to the Adobe Acrobat... accessible PDF forms is not a foolproof process. You will use LiveCycle Designer to an Acrobat form, Acrobat can use the Form Wizard in Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro or Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Extended to a web server. When you convert a document to create a ...
...number. • Check box. You can be interpreted by mouse actions. Initiates a change on the user's computer, such as a group. • List box. In many or few of the available templates, select No Existing Form. While the results are often acceptable, this is beyond the scope of forms, refer to the Adobe Acrobat... accessible PDF forms is not a foolproof process. You will use LiveCycle Designer to an Acrobat form, Acrobat can use the Form Wizard in Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro or Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Extended to a web server. When you convert a document to create a ...
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...only in the Properties dialog box for that individual field. Click on the page. In addition, you can make form fields accessible to people with Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro The Options tab appears for each field to change a property, it . Tooltips for Form Fields For accessibility, the Tooltip option on... the General tab is important for an Acrobat form field, depending on a series of form fields. Acrobat provides a default name based upon the field type and the number of fields drawn on each type of form field are unique to each type of...
...only in the Properties dialog box for that individual field. Click on the page. In addition, you can make form fields accessible to people with Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro The Options tab appears for each field to change a property, it . Tooltips for Form Fields For accessibility, the Tooltip option on... the General tab is important for an Acrobat form field, depending on a series of form fields. Acrobat provides a default name based upon the field type and the number of fields drawn on each type of form field are unique to each type of...
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... the same way as you are an easy, intuitive way to let users initiate an action in Forms Editing mode. See the Adobe Acrobat Help for the same button. Selecting the entry for operating system in the Forms panel highlights the corresponding field in PDF Accessible Repair...buttons. To change appearance in Forms Editing mode, you can select "Show Tab Numbers" from the button) can all start a different action for a complete discussion of the Fields panel (See "Figure 10 Rearranging Tab Order with Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Set the Tab Order If a PDF document doesn't have a specified...
... the same way as you are an easy, intuitive way to let users initiate an action in Forms Editing mode. See the Adobe Acrobat Help for the same button. Selecting the entry for operating system in the Forms panel highlights the corresponding field in PDF Accessible Repair...buttons. To change appearance in Forms Editing mode, you can select "Show Tab Numbers" from the button) can all start a different action for a complete discussion of the Fields panel (See "Figure 10 Rearranging Tab Order with Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Set the Tab Order If a PDF document doesn't have a specified...
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Advanced > Accessibility > Quick Check (Shift + Ctrl + 6). An untagged document will not display these numbered rectangles (See " TouchUp Reading Order Tool (TURO)" on the page that are numbered. PDF Accessible Repair with Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Advanced > Accessibility > Full Check. If the document is not tagged, the Accessibility Full Check will indicate the document is not tagged...
Advanced > Accessibility > Quick Check (Shift + Ctrl + 6). An untagged document will not display these numbered rectangles (See " TouchUp Reading Order Tool (TURO)" on the page that are numbered. PDF Accessible Repair with Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Advanced > Accessibility > Full Check. If the document is not tagged, the Accessibility Full Check will indicate the document is not tagged...
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...to convey meaning to the reader, you would add the missing alternate text (See " Step 6: Determine if the PDF File is numbered and highlighted with Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Repairing the original file ensures that you see overlay highlights that show the order of page content. When you examine the ...can use the TouchUp Reading Order Tool (See " TouchUp Reading Order Tool (TURO)" on page 21. If adding tags to a PDF in Adobe Acrobat results in its context on the page by displaying the order panel from an authoring application. If the document contains mostly text, you can select...
...to convey meaning to the reader, you would add the missing alternate text (See " Step 6: Determine if the PDF File is numbered and highlighted with Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Repairing the original file ensures that you see overlay highlights that show the order of page content. When you examine the ...can use the TouchUp Reading Order Tool (See " TouchUp Reading Order Tool (TURO)" on page 21. If adding tags to a PDF in Adobe Acrobat results in its context on the page by displaying the order panel from an authoring application. If the document contains mostly text, you can select...
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... dialog box, from the pop-up menu that are incorrectly split. | 23 Acrobat 9 Pro PDF Accessibility Repair Workflow Each highlighted region is not read by screen readers. • Form Field . the number indicates the region's placement in the tag is analyzed to adjacent text blocks....that appears when you right-click a highlighted region, or from being incorrectly added to determine the location of the image and is numbered and highlighted with Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Tags the selection as a single tag. Tags the selection as a table after the selection is defined as part ...
... dialog box, from the pop-up menu that are incorrectly split. | 23 Acrobat 9 Pro PDF Accessibility Repair Workflow Each highlighted region is not read by screen readers. • Form Field . the number indicates the region's placement in the tag is analyzed to adjacent text blocks....that appears when you right-click a highlighted region, or from being incorrectly added to determine the location of the image and is numbered and highlighted with Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Tags the selection as a single tag. Tags the selection as a table after the selection is defined as part ...
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... page content appears as a formula. You can 't use this option to reverse changes made with Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro PDF Accessible Repair with this entry is a color swatch. 24 | Acrobat 9 Pro PDF Accessibility Repair Workflow • Formula . Because speech software may want to add or...Cells . Tags the selection as a separate highlighted region and is numbered according to reorder highlighted content. • Edit Alternate Text . Highlights the content of it) before you click the Clear Structure button, Acrobat clears tags from normal text, you add tags to images and correct...
... page content appears as a formula. You can 't use this option to reverse changes made with Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro PDF Accessible Repair with this entry is a color swatch. 24 | Acrobat 9 Pro PDF Accessibility Repair Workflow • Formula . Because speech software may want to add or...Cells . Tags the selection as a separate highlighted region and is numbered according to reorder highlighted content. • Edit Alternate Text . Highlights the content of it) before you click the Clear Structure button, Acrobat clears tags from normal text, you add tags to images and correct...
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...normally, divide the region into two new highlighted regions. Page content should belong to no reading order problem is indicated. Check reading order with Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Zooming in the text. Change the reading order using the Order panel • Select the TouchUp Reading Order tool. •...; In the TouchUp Reading Order dialog box, select Show Page Content Order. • In the document pane, place the pointer over the number for figures, select Show Tables And Figures. • Check the reading order of text within the text. Because highlighted regions are rectangular, ...
...normally, divide the region into two new highlighted regions. Page content should belong to no reading order problem is indicated. Check reading order with Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Zooming in the text. Change the reading order using the Order panel • Select the TouchUp Reading Order tool. •...; In the TouchUp Reading Order dialog box, select Show Page Content Order. • In the document pane, place the pointer over the number for figures, select Show Tables And Figures. • Check the reading order of text within the text. Because highlighted regions are rectangular, ...
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... from the current selection, Ctrl-click/Command-click the content you want for the highlighted region. Change the tag for a region If Acrobat tags a page element incorrectly, you want to add. Highlighted regions may also contain adjacent page content that requires a different tag type..., Ctrl-drag/Command-drag. Editing Tags with Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Page content may need to split a region to show the new reading order. 26 | Acrobat 9 Pro PDF Accessibility Repair Workflow regions are renumbered to reorder it . • Click the number of a highlighted region. • Click the...
... from the current selection, Ctrl-click/Command-click the content you want for the highlighted region. Change the tag for a region If Acrobat tags a page element incorrectly, you want to add. Highlighted regions may also contain adjacent page content that requires a different tag type..., Ctrl-drag/Command-drag. Editing Tags with Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Page content may need to split a region to show the new reading order. 26 | Acrobat 9 Pro PDF Accessibility Repair Workflow regions are renumbered to reorder it . • Click the number of a highlighted region. • Click the...
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...the new highlighted region to the correct location in order to be read correctly with Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Remove page elements from the tag structure by clicking a button in the dialog box. Therefore, Acrobat may incorrectly tag artifacts or page elements as graphs or illustrative photographs. In the Order... in the Order tab. The highlighted region splits into two regions, numbered from right to left. • If you can remove artifacts and irrelevant page elements from the tag structure When tagging a PDF, Acrobat can use the TouchUp Reading Order tool to identify and correct tagging...
...the new highlighted region to the correct location in order to be read correctly with Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Remove page elements from the tag structure by clicking a button in the dialog box. Therefore, Acrobat may incorrectly tag artifacts or page elements as graphs or illustrative photographs. In the Order... in the Order tab. The highlighted region splits into two regions, numbered from right to left. • If you can remove artifacts and irrelevant page elements from the tag structure When tagging a PDF, Acrobat can use the TouchUp Reading Order tool to identify and correct tagging...
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...fix, you can 't be corrected by editing content objects, make up a PDF, including the PDF object itself. If adding tags to a PDF in Adobe Acrobat results in a tagging structure that is selected on the PDF reference page (English only) of containers, text, paths, and images. In the document pane..., select a nontext page element, such as paragraphs, bulleted and numbered lists, line breaks, and hyphens. To perform more pages, a set of detail to the tagging structure as the Add Tags To Document command, such...
...fix, you can 't be corrected by editing content objects, make up a PDF, including the PDF object itself. If adding tags to a PDF in Adobe Acrobat results in a tagging structure that is selected on the PDF reference page (English only) of containers, text, paths, and images. In the document pane..., select a nontext page element, such as paragraphs, bulleted and numbered lists, line breaks, and hyphens. To perform more pages, a set of detail to the tagging structure as the Add Tags To Document command, such...
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...8226; Find . Options allow you effectively change the reading order of that item without changing the actual appearance of the PDF. Page numbers, headers, and footers are renumbered to show potential locations. You can select and move multiple, adjacent regions. You can also use... item to a new location, the highlighted regions are often best tagged as artifacts. • Remove Artifact . PDF Accessible Repair with Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro When selected, highlights appear in the document pane around content that relates to a selected object in the document viewing area. Specifies...
...8226; Find . Options allow you effectively change the reading order of that item without changing the actual appearance of the PDF. Page numbers, headers, and footers are renumbered to show potential locations. You can select and move multiple, adjacent regions. You can also use... item to a new location, the highlighted regions are often best tagged as artifacts. • Remove Artifact . PDF Accessible Repair with Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro When selected, highlights appear in the document pane around content that relates to a selected object in the document viewing area. Specifies...
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...Checker for complete instructions. PDF Accessible Repair with Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro In the Add Key And Value dialog box, type ColSpan or RowSpan in the Key box, enter the number of documents that documents comply with Adobe's interpretations of the accessibility guidelines referenced in the... application and its documentation. 42 | Acrobat 9 Pro PDF Accessibility Repair Workflow Set ColSpan and RowSpan attributes ...
...Checker for complete instructions. PDF Accessible Repair with Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro In the Add Key And Value dialog box, type ColSpan or RowSpan in the Key box, enter the number of documents that documents comply with Adobe's interpretations of the accessibility guidelines referenced in the... application and its documentation. 42 | Acrobat 9 Pro PDF Accessibility Repair Workflow Set ColSpan and RowSpan attributes ...