Remediation In Adobe Acrobat
When accessibility issues cannot be addressed in the source document — or when you are working with a PDF that has no editable source — Adobe Acrobat Pro provides the tools to find and fix those issues directly in the PDF. This page covers the most common remediation tasks in Acrobat, organized by the type of issue being addressed.
Remediation in Acrobat is always a secondary option. Where a source document exists, fixing the issue there and re-exporting will produce better results with less effort. See Authoring Accessible Content for guidance on preventing accessibility issues at the authoring stage.
If you are remediating an accessible PDF form, form-specific remediation steps — including field labels, tooltips, tab order, tag structure, checkbox and radio button setup, and known validator behavior — are covered on the Creating Accessible PDF Forms page rather than here. The steps on this page apply to all PDF documents; form-specific work requires additional steps beyond standard remediation.
New to Adobe Acrobat?
If you are new to Adobe Acrobat Pro or would like an overview of the navigation panels used during remediation, see the Accessibility Tools Primer page before continuing.
Remediation Topics
Setting Document Properties
Set and verify the document title, language, initial view, and security settings in Adobe Acrobat.
Working With the Tags Panel
Learn to navigate and edit the tag tree — the foundation of all accessibility remediation work in Acrobat.
Reading Order
Verify and correct the sequence in which screen readers encounter content in the exported PDF.
Images and Alternate Text In Acrobat
Add or correct alt text on images and mark decorative images as artifacts in Adobe Acrobat.
Working With Tables In Adobe Acrobat
Set header cell scope and remediate multi-page table structure in the exported PDF.
Working With Lists In Adobe
Identify and correct list tag structure when lists did not export correctly from the source document.
Working with Links
Verify link destinations, add link descriptions, and correct link tag structure in Adobe Acrobat.
Scanned Documents and Bookmarks in Adobe Acrobat
Run OCR on scanned documents and create or verify bookmark structure in Adobe Acrobat.
Creating Accessible PDF Forms
Design accessible forms in Word, set up fields in Acrobat, and verify the complete form workflow.