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Adobe Acrobat Accessibility Tools

Follow these instructions for Adobe Acrobat accessibility:

1. Open the file

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2. Select recognize text and the file you want it to recognize the text

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3. Select the page(s)
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4. This tool will scan the page and make the image searchable by text

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5. Go to "tools" and select the accessibility 

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6. This will allow you to select the accessibility options you want to be checked for in your document


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7. Go to "accessibility check"

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8. It will scan your document based on the selection you have made
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9. Select "ok" and Adobe will automatically do the accessibility checking 

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10. You can put an alternative text to the image text given

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11. For the title of the image you can select "fix" to change the name

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12. Select 'explain" to give further details

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13. This page gives further details on how to change the language in the accessibility

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14. This lets you know what issues there is with your alt text

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15. Select the image and then right click and select "select tool" to make changes

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16. Remember to save changes made to the document

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