The Adobe Acrobat Accessibility Checker

How Good is the Accessibility Checker in Adobe Acrobat?

The Adobe Accessibility Checker is good at giving you an indication of basic accessibility errors in your document that will adversely affect individuals with disabilities. If you have a clean report from the checker, then the document should be keyboard accessible and readable with assistive technologies. However, the checker does not guarantee full compliance with the PDF/UA or the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. A manual check is always required even if your document shows no detectable errors after using the accessibility checker.

Using the Accessibility Checker

Follow these steps to ensure you get a full check from the accessibility checker:

1. Open the Accessibility Tool from the right-hand menu in Adobe Acrobat.
2. From the list of options, select Accessibility Check.
3. Leave the settings at their default.
   1. Ensure all boxes in Checking Options are checked.
   2. Ensure Category is set to Document.
4. Select the Start Checking button.
5. View results in the Navigation Pane.

   

The Navigation Pane will list all detected errors and provide some support for how to fix them.