Diana Kosovacova
Digital Marketing Lead & PDF Accessibility Evangelist
Quick Answer: PDFix now has free apps in the Enfocus Switch App Store. PDFix Make Accessible automates PDF accessibility remediation – a PDF comes in and a PDF/UA-ready file comes out. PDFix Validation checks PDF jobs against PDF/UA, WCAG, and related profiles and routes them to Success, Warning, or Error based on the result. Used together, they turn “check, fix, check” into three flow steps instead of three separate tools.
Why PDF Accessibility Can’t Wait
PDF accessibility stopped being optional.
The EU’s European Accessibility Act, in force since June 28, 2025, applies directly to customer-facing PDFs and carries fines up to €100,000 or 4% of annual revenue (Quertum); the US ADA Title II rule now gives state and local governments until April 26, 2027 to bring digital documents up to WCAG 2.1 AA, following a DOJ compliance-date extension issued in April 2026 (Federal Register).
Every PDF now needs a real accessibility check, and doing that by hand doesn’t scale. That’s the gap PDFix’s Switch apps close – this page covers all of them, from whichever angle each one works.
Jump to an app:
PDFix Make Accessible – fixes tagging, structure, and metadata automatically
PDFix Validation – checks PDF/UA, WCAG, and related profiles, and gates your flow
PDFix Make Accessible: Automated PDF/UA Remediation
PDFix Make Accessible bundles the PDFix SDK command-line engine (pdfix-cli 9.1.0) directly into your flow – no separate PDFix install needed. Once it’s dropped into a flow, it:
- Processes every incoming PDF automatically, no operator required
- Fixes tagging, structure, reading order, metadata, language, title, and bookmarks
- Supports optional layout templates for consistent tagging on recurring document types
- Handles encrypted PDFs when a password is configured
- Outputs a JSON report on every job, so you can see exactly what happened
- Routes anything it can’t fix to the Error connection with a report attached – nothing disappears silently
The app listing is upfront about one limit:
PDFix Make Accessible handles most of the remediation automatically, but you should still validate the output and give it a human check before treating a document as fully compliant. It removes most of the manual work it doesn’t replace the final review
Compatibility & Requirements
| Switch version | 25.11 or higher |
| Platform | Windows, macOS (Intel & Apple Silicon) |
| License | Free app; requires a PDFix SDK license (per-flow or server-wide) |
| Support | pdfix.net/support |
How to Get PDFix Make Accessible in Switch
If you’re on Switch 25.11+, PDFix Make Accessible is a “Get it now” click and a license away from running in a live flow, straight from the Enfocus App Store. With enforcement now underway, this is the easy way to make accessibility an automated step – not a separate project.
PDFix Validation: Automated Conformance Checking
PDFix Validation checks checks PDF jobs against PDF/UA, WCAG, and related profiles directly inside a Switch flow, using a bundled veraPDF CLI, and routes each job to Success, Warning, or Error based on the result.
- No external veraPDF install to configure – the CLI and PDFix Desktop-compatible profiles ship with the app
- Pick a validation profile from a dropdown matching PDFix Desktop’s own names: PDF/UA, PDF/A, WCAG, WTPDF, Tagged PDF, and related profiles
- Attaches the veraPDF XML report to the matching connection whenever one is produced
- Handles encrypted PDFs with an optional password, masked in logged commands
- Runs concurrently, built for production-volume Switch workflows
The app listing is upfront about one limit:
Automated validation is built for production gates and remediation loops, not a final word on its own – results still need interpreting in the context of the profile you chose and your own review process.
Compatibility & Requirements
| Switch version | 25.11 or higher |
| Platform | Windows, macOS (Intel & Apple Silicon) |
| Bundled runtime | veraPDF CLI (jlink runtime 1.30.2) + PDFix Desktop-compatible validation profile XMLs |
| License | Free app; no PDFix SDK license required – validation runs on the bundled veraPDF CLI |
| Support | pdfix.net/support |
Learn more about the validation engine at pdfix.net/verapdf-free-pdf-ua-validator
Using PDFix Apps Together
Every PDFix app for Switch is a standalone flow element – add the one you need, or combine them. Right now, that means a fix-then-confirm loop: run Validation first to gate incoming jobs before they touch production, or run it after Make Accessible to confirm the remediated file actually clears your chosen profile before it moves downstream.
As more apps ship, the same principle holds – each one works alone, and they’re built to chain together inside a single flow.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many PDFix apps are there for Enfocus Switch?
Two so far: Make Accessible (remediation) and Validation (conformance checking). This page is updated each time a new one ships.
Is PDFix Make Accessible free?
The app is free to download. You’ll need a valid PDFix SDK license to run it.
Is PDFix Validation free?
Yes, entirely – unlike Make Accessible, Validation needs no PDFix SDK license. It runs on the bundled veraPDF CLI.
Do I need to install anything separately for these apps?
No. Make Accessible ships the PDFix SDK command-line runtime inside the app; Validation ships the veraPDF CLI and PDFix Desktop-compatible profiles the same way.
Does any PDFix app guarantee full accessibility compliance?
No tool can. Make Accessible automates tagging, structure, and metadata; Validation automates the conformance check. Both still need human review and interpretation before you call a document fully compliant.
What validation profiles does PDFix Validation support?
PDF/UA-1 by default, with PDF/UA-2, PDF/A-1A, WCAG 2.2, and ISO 32000-1 Tagged PDF also available.
