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Free report · Updated November 2026
A two-page brief on making PDF documents accessible to everyone, including people who use screen readers or the keyboard only. It explains what remediation involves beyond tagging, who benefits, how a document is analysed, and which standards and rules apply.
What happens when someone with low vision opens a PDF that was never remediated.
Why remediation depends on your audience and the type of document.
Keyboard users, older readers, non-native speakers, mobile users and the general public.
Manual checks and tools such as PAC that test documents against PDF/UA and WCAG.
Educational materials, forms, corporate reports, healthcare information and legal documents.
PDF/UA, WCAG 2.2, EN 301 549 and the European Accessibility Act.
Documentation, communication and compliance managers who publish manuals, reports, forms or catalogues as PDF, in one language or several.
It is most useful when you are checking documents against the European Accessibility Act, answering an accessibility complaint or planning a document redesign.
Checked on 10 November 2026.
Fixing an existing PDF so that assistive technologies can use it: adding tags and a logical reading order, describing images, structuring headings, tables and lists, and setting the document language. It is usually done after the document has been designed.
Not always. Tools such as PAC catch many technical issues, but a document can pass PDF/UA checks and still fall short on WCAG criteria such as meaningful alternative text or a sensible reading order. A manual review is still needed.
It covers specific products and services, and documents that are part of them, such as information provided with a product or service, may need to be accessible. Whether a given PDF is in scope depends on the product or service it belongs to, so check the Act and your national rules.
Yes. Each language version is a separate document, and tags, alternative text and the language setting must be correct in every one. It is more efficient to plan accessibility into the translation and layout workflow than to fix each version afterwards.
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