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Re: Acrobat Accessibility Check vs. PAC 3.0?

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From: Jeevan Reddy
Date: Jul 31, 2018 4:36AM


On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 4:29 AM, < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> We find that no one tool finds everything.
> We recommend that our clients run the Acrobat checker first, correct the
> errors it finds, and then run PAC3.
> Acrobat does not find all errors...not even close!
> Wish it did a better job, though.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of
> Tomlins Diane
> Sent: Monday, July 30, 2018 3:40 PM
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> Subject: [WebAIM] Acrobat Accessibility Check vs. PAC 3.0?
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Looking for some feedback on these 2 tools. We have a vendor that is
> telling
> us NOT to use Acrobat's A11y check tool, and to instead use PAC 3.0. In
> house, we've been using Acrobat since we don't yet have an Enterprise
> solution for PDFs.
>
> The vendor states that PAC is the industry standard and "Acrobat should
> not
> be used for a checker - That is the reason they were getting so many errors
> when in fact it was passing when run through the PAC site."
>
> So, what might be the reason for what they think are marked differences
> between what PAC reports as pass/fail/errors vs. Acrobat ? Is it better to
> use them in tandem? I'm not crazy about a vendor admonishing us to only
> use
> the tool THEY use. I have reviewed PDF's they send back to us as 'passed'
> and the document will have failures in Acrobat.
>
> The other wrinkle with PAC is it only works on Windows, and we a growing
> contingent of folks on Macs.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Diane R Tomlins
> HCA IT&S | Digital Media
> Accessibility SME
>
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Best Regards,
Jeevan Reddy,
Accessibility Consultant,
Infosys Ltd,
Bangalore, India.