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From: Stanzel, Susan - FSA, Kansas City, MO
Date: Fri, Mar 29 2013 8:19AM
Subject: TDF Testing
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I am being charged with testing some PDF documents. I work for U.S.D.A. and I need to say they are Section 508 compliant. Is there an easy way to do this? Can I jump from heading to heading using "h" as in a Web Page?
Susie Stanzel
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From: Andrews, David B (DEED)
Date: Fri, Mar 29 2013 8:39AM
Subject: Re: TDF Testing
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The JAWS "Quick Navigation Keys" do work in Adobe Acrobat, but their working in and of itself wouldn't mean the document was accessible.
Dave
From: Pamela Riesmeyer
Date: Fri, Mar 29 2013 9:16AM
Subject: Re: TDF Testing
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Susan, it may not be an ideal solution, but we test in a couple of ways.
We use the built-in Adobe Acrobat Pro checker as our first step. Version
10 of Acrobat Pro has a Section 508 check option. Version 11 is, I believe,
a bit stricter.
We do a manual check of the tags and reading order.
We test with JAWS and NVDA screen readers
and we also use the PAC PDF
checker.<http://www.access-for-all.ch/en/pdf-lab/pdf-accessibility-checker-pac/download-pac.html>;
After running all of those tests, we still cross our fingers.
Hope that helps some.
Pam Riesmeyer
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Andrews, David B (DEED) <
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> The JAWS "Quick Navigation Keys" do work in Adobe Acrobat, but their
> working in and of itself wouldn't mean the document was accessible.
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> Dave
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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Fri, Mar 29 2013 9:20AM
Subject: Re: TDF Testing
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There are some tools that can help you.
If you have Adobe ACrobat X or XI there are some built-in toold
http>//www.adobe.com/accessibility is a goodplace to start with that.
The freeware tool from Access4All is also good basic testing (though I
cannot make it work well with PDF forms, it works pretty well with PDF
text):
http://www.access4all.ch
The tool is called PAC or PDF Accessibility Checker.
These are definitely good resources to get started.
CommonLook also has PDF accessibility checking tools, more advanced,
not free, but probably pretty powerful (again, I have no financial
ties or any ties to these, only repeating hearsay in this rgard, I've
been meaning to test these, but it's been hard to drum up the required
interest in PDF accessibility in Iceland, though I feel I am on the
verge of getting a buy-in).
Cheers
-B
On 3/29/13, Andrews, David B (DEED) < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> The JAWS "Quick Navigation Keys" do work in Adobe Acrobat, but their
> working in and of itself wouldn't mean the document was accessible.
>
> Dave
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