Check accessibility with Quick Check
Use Quick Check to examine a PDF to see if it has searchable text, document structure tags, and appropriate security settings to make it accessible.
Press Shift+Ctrl+6/Shift+Command+6.
If the document is unstructured, a message may appear, suggesting that you change reading order preferences.
Accessibility Quick Check results
- “This document has logical structure but it is not a Tagged PDF. Some accessibility information may be missing.”
- Quick Check has found an underlying document structure in the document, so Reader will use the available document structure to control the reading order, rather than analyzing the document itself. However, this untagged document structure might be incomplete or unreliable, so assistive software and the accessibility features in Reader (such as the Read Out Loud and the Save As Text features) may not read the page properly. If the reading order of the page seems to be wrong, select Override The Reading Order In Tagged Documents in the Reading panel of the Preferences dialog box.
- “This document is not structured, so the reading order may not be correct. Try different reading orders using the Reading Preferences panel.”
- Quick Check has found no underlying document structure that Reader can use for reading order. Reader will analyze the reading order of the document using the current analysis method set in the Reading Order preference, but this PDF might not be read correctly by screen readers. If the reading order seems wrong, select a different option for Reading Order in the Reading panel of the Preferences dialog box.
- “No accessibility problems were detected in this quick check. Choose the Full Check command to check more thoroughly.”
- Quick Check has found that the PDF contains searchable text, is tagged, has an underlying document structure, and has no security settings that prohibit access for screen readers. To check for other types of accessibility problems that may be present in the PDF, use Full Check.
- “This document’s security settings prevent access by screen readers.”
- Quick Check has found that the PDF has security settings that interfere with screen readers’ ability to extract text for conversion to speech. You may be able to use a screen reader with this document if your assistive technology product is registered with Adobe as a Trusted Agent. Contact your assistive technology product vendor.
- “This document appears to contain no text. It may be a scanned image.”
- Quick Check has found that the PDF contains no searchable text, probably because the document consists entirely of one or more scanned images. This means that screen readers, Read Out Loud, Reflow view, and most other accessibility features—which rely on text as input—will not work with this document.