Accessibility permission flag
Some documents may be protected by the document authors and no content can be copied, printed, extracted, annotated, or edited. This permission setting could interfere with a screen reader’s ability to read the documents because screen readers need to copy or extract the documents’ text to convert it to speech.
The flag reports whether the setting is turned off to allow accessibility. If your document failed to pass the rule, to fix the issue automatically, right-click the rule in the Accessibility Check panel in the navigation pane and choose Fix from the context menu in Foxit PDF Editor Pro. You can also fix the issue manually by choosing No Protection in File > Properties > Security to turn off the permission setting.
Image-only PDF
The rule check reports whether the document is an image-only PDF with non-text content that is not accessible. To fix the issue automatically, right-click the rule in the Accessibility Check panel in the navigation pane and choose Fix from the context menu in Foxit PDF Editor Pro. Or, you can use the OCR tools under the Convert tab on the ribbon to recognize text in images to fix the rule check manually.
Tagged PDF
This rule check reports whether the document is a PDF with tags to specify the reading order, which is important for an accessible PDF. If the check failed, right-click the rule in the Accessibility Check panel in the navigation pane and choose Fix from the context menu in Foxit PDF Editor Pro. Or, you can tag the PDF manually by doing any of the following:
- Re-create the PDF from a file that has been tagged in the authoring application.
- Use the Autotag Document/Form Field commands under the Accessibility tab in Foxit PDF Editor Pro.
- Use the Reading Order command under the Accessibility tab in Foxit PDF Editor Pro to create the tags tree for the document manually.
- Directly create the tags tree manually in the Tags panel in the navigation pane in Foxit PDF Editor Pro.
Logical Reading Order
Check the rule manually to make sure that the reading order in the Tags panel is in accordance with the logical reading order.
Primary language
Some screen readers read the text in the language specified for the document. This rule checks whether the primary text language for the document is specified. If no language was set, only Foxit PDF Editor Pro allows you to fix this issue. You can set the language by right-clicking the rule in the Accessibility Check panel in the navigation pane and choosing Fix from the context menu, then choose a language in the Set Reading Language dialog box. You can also set the language manually by doing either of the following:
- Set the language for text in a subtree of the tags tree in the Tags panel. To do this, select an element in the Tags panel, click the Options menu at the top of the Tags panel, and choose Properties… (or right-click an element in the Tags panel and choose Properties….). Then select a language in the Object Properties dialog box.
- Set the language for a block of text in the Content panel. To do this, select the text element or container element in the Content panel, click the Options menu at the top of the Content panel, and choose Properties… (or right-click the text element or container element in the Content panel, and choose Properties….). Then select a language in the Object Properties dialog box.
Title
This rule is to check whether the document contains a title in its document properties. If the check failed, right-click the rule in the Accessibility Check panel in the navigation pane, choose Fix from the context menu in Foxit PDF Editor Pro, uncheck Leave as is and enter the document title in the Description dialog box. Or, add the title manually in the Title box in File > Properties > Description, and then select Display document title in Window Options in File > Properties > Initial View.
Bookmarks
If the document contains 21 or more pages, but doesn’t have bookmarks that correspond to the document structure, this rule check will fail. To add bookmarks to the tagged document, right-click the rule in the Accessibility Check panel in the navigation pane, choose Fix from the context menu in Foxit PDF Editor Pro, and select the elements you want to use as bookmarks in the Structure Elements dialog box.
Color contrast
The check may fail if the document contains content that isn’t accessible to people who are color-blind. To fix the issue, ensure that the document’s content conforms to the guidelines in WCAG section 1.4.3, or select Replace document colors and set high-contrast colors to the PDF viewer in File > Preferences > Accessibility.