The CommonLook® PDF plugin for Adobe Acrobat® allows you to quickly check and correct PDF documents and forms to ensure they comply with Section 508 and other accessibility standards.
CommonLook PDF is far faster and more efficient than using Adobe Acrobat alone to check and correct PDF tags. Just as important, however, is CommonLook PDF's comprehensive element-level auditing and the definitive CommonLook Report.
NOTE: If you've used older versions of CommonLook you should know that version 4.0 streamlines and simplifies the process of Section 508 verification and remediation with powerful new features!
Benefits
"CommonLook is very simple and easy to use and it greatly reduces the amount of time it takes to convert PDF documents to meet 508 compliance standards.
More importantly, there is peace of mind knowing that the converted PDF document is 508 compliant."
- Tami Savage
Department of Veterans Affairs
Health Eligibility Center
- Ensures conformance with Section 508 and other applicable accessibility standards.
- Allows users to verify and correct tagging order and semantics in a dedicated, auditable workflow.
- Enforces correct structuring of Tables, Lists and Tables of Contents.
- Automatically corrects a variety of common problems in PDF files.
- Dramatically reduces the time required to correct existing PDF documents.
- Re-orders page content to improve the reading experience on current-generation mobile devices and for other users with software that does not yet support tagged PDF.
- Output PDF files are verified by the software or the operator, as appropriate to each checkpoint.
- Generates a page-by-page, element-by-element report accepted by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and other Federal agencies.
Features
- Process Automation: Optionally, segment testing by individual checkpoint, increasing productivity by allowing specialist users (for example, alternate text authors) to focus on their subject-matter expertise.
- Process Optimization: Displays information and performs actions that are to the current checkpoint. As each issue is addressed it's removed from the list.
- Advanced Table Structure Editor: the table checkpoint window provides a wide range of powerful tools to verify and remediate tables.
- Synchronized View: The user can view both logical structure and physical view together, with or without artifacts displayed.
- Verification Reports: Provides detailed and summary test results information for each page and the document as a whole.
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Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) for CommonLook PDF (PDF)
Windows 7, Vista or XP and Adobe® Acrobat® Professional 6.0 or later. Windows Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 or later is required.
