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Accessibility for PDFs

Acrobat Pro offers tools to create accessible PDFs and check the accessibility of existing PDFs.

How to make a PDF accessible using Acrobat Pro

Open PDF using Adobe Acrobat Pro
Select Tools > Action wizard > Make Accessible > Start and follow instructions
Save

This procedure allows to add a title, author, language, any missing alt text for images etc.

How to check a PDF for accessibility

We suggest to make the PDF accessible first (see steps above), and then check for accessibility

Open PDF using Adobe Acrobat Pro
Select Tools > Accessibility > Accessibility check > Start checking

For more information

Visit Create and verify PDF accessibility (Acrobat Pro) on the Adobe website

Note for website editors

PDFs and other documents can be stored in OneDrive, and a link added on the website.

If you add a file to share via a link, please chose the option 'People in Nexus365 with a link can view', and untick the editing option.