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Re: Acrobat Accessibility Check vs. PAC 3.0?

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From: Alan Zaitchik
Date: Jul 31, 2018 6:51AM

Bevi,
I have found that the free CommonLook Validator plugin finds a lot more issues that Acrobat's Accessibility Checker. (And you can select the standards you're checking against.)
Even allowing for fact that some reported failures may be false positives, is there a reason not to start with Validator?
(I have no experience with PAC 3.0.)
A

> On Jul 30, 2018, at 6:59 PM, < <EMAIL REMOVED> > < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> 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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> --Bevi Chagnon
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