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Acrobat Professional and Standard

dendel
Registered: Oct 15 2007
Posts: 6

Acrobat 8.0 has great functional tools to test web pages for 508 compliance, does version 7.0 also perform this task?

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8, Windows
gpisocky
Registered: Aug 29 2007
Posts: 7
Hi,

Acrobat 7.0 Professional features these accessibility testing tools as well. In fact they were introduced in Acrobat 7.0 Professional. An earlier version of the Accessibility tester was part of Acrobat 6 however this implementation which identifed errors in the PDF did not take you directly to the location in the file where those errors occured.

Acrobat 7 Professional also introduced the Touch Up Read Order tool which makes repair of accessibility issues in PDF files much easier than in previous versions.

Acrobat Standard editions do not have the Full Check, this is a feature exclusive to the Standard version.

For those users who do not have a product which has the Full Check, the Quick Check is an accessibility checking feature that was introduced in Version 6 as well. It is a feature of Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat Standard and Professiona versions 6,7 and 8. It is meant to provide a cursory assessment of a PDF file's accessibility.

Acrobat 8 provides additional flavors of the checker that test for common accessibility standards compliance such as the US Federal Government Section 508 Guidelines and the World Wide Web Consortium's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines ver 1 and the draft of the anticipated version 2. Acrobat 8 has introduced the Table Inspector for analyzing the accessibility of tables.

Greg

Greg Pisocky
Adobe Accessibility