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Checking and Remediating PDF Files for Accessibility
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The TURO Tool has four sections. The top section consists of 11 buttons with
directions to draw a rectangle around content on the PDF then select one of the
buttons. These buttons are:
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Text – gives the selected content a <P> tag. Used for Paragraphs.
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Form Field – gives the selected content a <Form> tag. Used for form fields.
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Text – gives the selected content a <P> tag. Used for Paragraphs.
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Heading 1 – gives the selected content a <H1> tag. Used for First heading
of document – usually the title. There should be only 1 Heading level 1 per
document.
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Headings 2 & 3 – gives the selected content a <H2> or <H3> tag. Used for
sub-headings. Headings should be in hierarchal order.
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Figure – gives the content a <Figure> tag. Used for images.
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Figure/Caption – gives the selected content a <Figure> tag with a
<Caption> within the <Figure>. Used for figures with captions. (Note, this
doesn’t always work correctly, so be sure to check the tag)
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Table – gives the selected content a <Table> tag with, hopefully, <TR> and
<TD> tags as children. Used for tagging entire tables. (Note that this does
not always work, so check the tags it creates carefully)
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Cell – gives the selected content a <TD> tag. Used to create table cells.
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Formula – gives the selected content a <Formula> tag. Used for
mathematical formulas. Marking it a formula, however, does not make the
formula accessible. Give it alt text. Note: This is not ideal, but at the moment
there is no other option.
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Background – Marks the selected content as an artifact in the Content
panel. A screen reader will ignore it. (Note: Artifact and Background are
synonymous.)
The next section has one button:
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Table Editor – shows the cells in a selected table and allows some editing of
the table such as marking cells as headers, defining cells that span rows or
columns, adding scope and id attributes to table cells.
The next section consists of three checkboxes: (note that the box to the right of the
checkbox label allows you to change the color of the overlay for each item below.)
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Show page content order – displays numbers on the PDF page showing
content order (note, this is not necessarily how the page will be read with a
screen reader)
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Show table cells – highlights the table cells (note that the either the Show
page content order or Show tables and figures checkbox must be checked for
this to be checkable/viewed)
