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Section 3: The accessibility workflow

Step 2: If the document is a form, add fillable, accessible form fields

If the document that you create or receive is to be a fillable form, you must add fillable, accessible form fields (if they
arent already present) and tag the form (if it isnt already tagged). Read Section 8: Making Adobe PDF forms accessible on page 39 for instructions on using the Acrobat family of products for processing and tagging Adobe PDF
forms for accessibility.

Step 3: Tag the Adobe PDF document

You can tag an Adobe PDF document during conversion to PDF from an authoring application, or at any time after
conversion to PDF in Acrobat 7.0. To tag a document from the authoring application, see the sections of this guide
that are discussed in Step 1: Start from the document you have on page 12.
Some PDF documents that you work with may already be tagged. If the document is not yet tagged, tag it by
following the instructions in Section 9: Adding tags to Adobe PDF documents on page 48.

Step 4: Evaluate the Adobe PDF document and repair common problems
Once you have a tagged Adobe PDF document, you must evaluate the document for reading order problems, tagging
errors, and accessibility errors, and then repair them as needed. To do these tasks, you must use the accessibility Full
Check, the TouchUp Reading Order tool, and other features in Acrobat Professional. Follow the instructions in
Section 10: Evaluating Adobe PDF documents for accessibility problems on page 52 and Section 11: Repairing
reading order and basic tagging problems on page 59.

Step 5: Add other accessibility features to the Adobe PDF document

This step in the workflow includes performing tasks that include setting the documents tab order and document
language, adding bookmarks, and creating accessible links. Many of these tasks require Acrobat 7.0 Professional, but
you can do some of them in Acrobat 7.0 Standard. Follow the instructions in Section 12: Adding other accessibility
features on page 85.

Step 6: As needed, edit the tag tree to fix advanced problems

Some tagging problems, such as incorrectly identified table elements, require using advanced techniques to edit the
documents tag tree. Read Section 13: Fixing advanced accessibility problems on page 92 for instructions on how
to deal with these situations. Editing tags requires Acrobat 7.0 Professional.