Adobe ACROBAT 9 HOW-TOS - Complying with PDF and Accessibility Standards

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C H A P T E R S I X
Complying with PDF
and Accessibility Standards
Traditionally, the preight process tests les for compliance with certain
printers or standards. The concept of preight has changed from that of a
testing tool to one of the most powerful features in Acrobat. Along with
evaluation, you can also employ xups, which modify your document
for everything from attening form elds to moving comments o the
printing area.
Acrobat 9 Pro takes the evaluation and xup process further than ever
before, letting you specify a particular area or view to evaluate or repair, or
even create layers to separate your document’s objects. Just as you might
certify a document with a digital signature to indicate you are the author
or approve the content, Acrobat 9 includes a preight audit trail, add-
ing a digital signature automatically to certify your document’s standards
compliance.
If you nd opening dialogs and running preight proles repeti-
tious, make yourself a program to run features automatically from the
desktop.
Output standards also apply to accessibility features. Acrobat 9 oers a
range of features that allow users who are visually or motion impaired to
work with PDF documents. You’ll nd testing options to establish whether
a document complies with dierent accessibility standards, and evalua-
tion reports that help you correct accessibility issues.
Tags are a key element in making accessible documents. Acrobat con-
tains a number of ways in which you can apply tags to a document, evalu-
ate the status of the document, and use the tags for manipulating the
document and its contents.
From the Library of Daniel Dadian