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Re: Automated Checking of PDF Documents?

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From: smithj7
Date: Jul 6, 2007 11:30PM

The read out loud feature isn't an effective test of the level of
accessiblity. We often test with speech. The AT (JAWS for example) is
reading a different layer of the Adobe document than the read out loud
feature. (there is what you see, the tag level, and the content level)

Note I use both the accessiblity checker for Adobe 7 and Adobe 8 - 8
ALWAYS indicates a problem if I select the 508 aspect of the checker. I
also have been introduced to Netentric. We are purchasing two licenses.


An inherent adobe feature I discovered is the check box with forms. In
html there are radio buttons. In Adobe radio buttons seem to only read
the RANGE, can't find a way to have it read individual (e.g. reads
"colors" for each item rather than red, blue, pink). So one must use a
check box... Meaning more than one can be checked, following rules.