Adobe Acrobat can run an Accessibility Full Check. This can be a good tool to ensure that nothing was overlooked. Run the full check by, selecting Prepare for accessibility (Tools panel) then Check for accessibility. This action opens another window. On the bottom right-hand side select Start Checking. This will generate a report of accessibility errors and tell you how to fix them.
Action Wizard
The guided actions Acrobat is a tool to ensure that you don’t miss any steps while making your document accessible. To run the wizard, select the Use guided actions in the Tools panel, then Make Accessible.
The action is organized into three steps:
- Prepare
- Add Document Description
- Set Open Options
- Recognize Text using OCR
- Detect Form Fields
- Set Tab Order Property
- Set Language & Tags
- Set Reading Language
- Add Tags to Document
- Set Alternate Text
- Run Accessibility Check
- Run Accessibility Full Check
Read Out Loud
Read Out Loud is a built-in voice synthesizer that is available in Adobe Reader and Acrobat that reads the content of a PDF document out loud to you. You can get a good idea of what screen reader users encounter. Use this by opening the main menu, then View, then Read out loud.
PAC
For more in-depth accessibility testing of your PDF files, we recommend using PDF-Accessibility-Checker PAC 2024 sometimes just called PAC. PAC provides very thorough testing and a detailed report of any issues.