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Re: KOFAX vs Acrobat accessibility evaluation

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From: Karen McCall
Date: Jun 6, 2024 5:55AM

BTW, I rank the remaining two tools in order of capability for tagging/remediating. Acrobat, with all its faults, is still the best of the worst with Foxit in second place. Foxit has several missing tools or tools that don't work as they should. Additionally, the Foxit Reader doesn't respect changes in language or expansion text (when the Span tag is used) and you want to test with a screen reader. I have to use Acrobat to test tagged PDF...so I might as well use Acrobat.

For example, I recently updated a tutorial on how the three applications deal with OCR/Text Recognition. I use the same document each time I run the testing. This time, Foxit wouldn't let me correct any misrecognized text and when I tagged the document after performing text recognition, the entire Tags Tree was empty <P> Tags. Bug or feature?

Cheers, Karen