Accessibility

With PDFix, you can ensure your PDFs are accessible and compliant with standards such as Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and PDF/UA (Universal Access).

The Accessibility panel offers a range of tools to make your documents accessible.

First, start by selecting whether your document is untagged or already contains tags.

• Untagged PDF
  • For automated tagging, there are two high level commands available:
    • Make Accessible
    • Autotag
  • For manual tagging, the Accessibility pane provides quick access to Tag As commands.
• Tagged PDF
  • There are numerous automated, semi-automated, and manual actions available for fixing accessibility issues:
    • Automated Actions
    • Manual Tagging
    • Tag Tool

Basic Accessibility Actions

Basic Accessibility actions offer automated batch processing for general accessibility issues in PDF documents.

Accessibility panel

TagAs view

The TagAs view simplifies manual tagging by offering quick access to tags and providing easy access to them. You can set the most frequently used tags in Preferences -> Accessibility tab.

Manual tagging works for different types of selection. Use Default Tool, Object Tool or selection from Content, Tags or Validation panels. When buttons are enabled, you can re-tag selected content with the desired type.

This action utilizes layout recognition algorithms in the background, allowing you to re-tag even complex content such as tables and lists.

Role Map

Role Map matches each custom tag to a standard tag. When assistive software encounters a custom tag, it checks this role map to properly interpret the tags. Tagging PDFs using one of the methods described here generally produces a correct role map for the document.

Within the top toolbar menu, you can Add, Edit, or Delete role mappings. If the mapping of one or more non-standard types is semantically inappropriate, you can correct this error here.

Class Map

Class Map store attributes that are associated with each object in your PDF document. Each tag within the document may have a list of names that identify the classes to which it belongs.

The option menu in the toolbar allows you to Add, Edit, or Delete any set of attributes associated with these class maps.