axesPDF is your time-saving tool to check and
remediate PDF documents during the process of
making them fully accessible and compliant.

Accessibility issues are easily found and
most of them are fixed instantly with a single click.

axesPDF installs as a standalone Windows application:

With available mainstream programs in the fields of
word processing, desktop publishing or PDF editing it is
not possible to implement lean PDF accessibility workflows.
axesPDF fills this gap.

axesPDF is for all accessible PDFs (and workflows);
you need it especially for accessible PDF documents
created with Adobe Indesign or Acrobat.

No matter if you create an accessible PDF to be
published with Adobe InDesign, Acrobat or MS Word,
axesPDF® is a short cut if you want to achieve
PDF/UA conformance.

Important.
Precondition for working with axesPDF is that
your PDF document has already a tag structure.
If this is not the case then first create a PDF with tags,
either from converting the source document or
with a PDF editor.

axesPDF as short cut

The checking & remediation tool axesPDF helps
accessible document authors reaching fully
PDF/UA compliant documents with ease.

You can use it at the end of your
InDesign, Acrobat or MS Word workflow.

Usually you start with the PDF/UA check.
Then you look at the errors,
choose the corresponding commands and fix them
- in most cases only with one click.

If you have tagged PDFs but you need to remediate
fonts, spacing, structural tags tree errors or have
lots of complex tables, axesPDF is the tool for you.

Interesting?

• Contact NewFormat for a quote on axesPDF

Features

axesPDF® is a box full of tools for
the professional quality assurance of accessible PDF.
All tools are great timesavers and enable
a lean correction workflow.

axesPDF in a glance:

• Tool for checking and remediation in one step


• The professional version of:

• PDF Accessibility Checker (PAC)



• Automated PDF/UA-check


• Interactive report of all PDF/UA issues
  with help how to fix it


• A lot of 1-click-fixing buttons
  (for the complete document)


• Fix PDF/UA issues,
  in many cases by using 1-click-fixing button


• Advanced correction of tag properties & attributes
  (for one element or for several elements)


• Simplified structure view for a quick
  visual evaluation (Screenreader-Preview)


• Clear expert view for specific diagnosis:
  Logical Structure / Document View / Properties / Role Mapping


• Create nested bookmarks based on heading tags


• Edit document properties


• Prepare PDFs for proper tagging

User interface and buttons - an overview

1-click-fixing buttons
- axesPDF® offers a lot of 1-click-fixing buttons like:

• Mark all non-tagged elements in
  the document as artifacts with one click


• Insert missing spaces (between words)
  - on the content level


• Add IDs to every Note-Tags


• Add link descriptions


• Add the PDF/UA-identifier

Complete PDF/UA-check - Automated & Human

Some PDF/UA requirements can be checked by a machine.
But there are also requirements that have to be
checked by a human.

Therefore both is necessary:
an automated PDF/UA-check and an additional
human visual evaluation of the PDF.

• All machine-checkable checkpoints

In axesPDF® an automated PDF/UA-check
(Tab Checker) is included.
It covers all machine-checkable checkpoints of
the Matterhorn Protocol.



• Tools for the human visual evaluation

For the additional visual evaluation
an essential part of every PDF/UA-check,
there are two complementary tools in axesPDF®:

• Ribbon tab: Preview:
• a simplified structure view
  for a quick visual evaluation
  (for example: evaluation of the semantics)


• Ribbon Tab: Logical Structure Tree:
• an expert view of the Logical Document Structure
  for a specific diagnosis and check of
  the logical order in combination with
  a parallel document view.

Interactive report of all PDF/UA issues
with help how to fix it

Diagnosis made easy:
Clickable issues in the accessibility report lead directly to
the corresponding locations in the document view and
in the Logical Structure Tree.

By using the F1-key you can get useful hints
on how to fix a specific PDF/UA issue.

Fixing PDF/UA issues
- in many cases by using 1-click-fixing buttons

What is the use of a detailed accessibility report anyhow,
if the fixing of the issues is much to time-consuming or
complicated - at least for an average user?

For such cases axesPDF offers a lot of
1-click-fixing buttons like for example:

• Add PDF/UA identifier


• Reset Zooms


• Set Contents key of Link annotations


• Set Tab Order

If you cannot fix the issue with one click,
you find task panes in axesPDF,
that help you to fix the issue - like for example:

• Add Bookmarks


• Create Destinations


• Fix Roles


• Insert Spaces


• Remove Language Assignments


• Rename Tag

Key Benefits

• The user interface is optimized for remediators


• You can fix PDF/UA issues that other tools cannot fix


• You can fix PDF/UA issues with one click
  that other tools have to fix manually one by one


• You save massively time
  during the process of quality assurance


• The evaluation and analysis is simplified

System Requirements

axesPDF installs as a standalone Windows application.

Supported operating systems:

• Windows 10 (64 Bit)


• Windows 11 (64 Bit)



Additional requirements:

Additionally, the following programs
have to be installed on your computer:

• ASP.NET Core Runtime 3.1 (Hosting Bundle)


• .NET Desktop Runtime 3.1


• .NET Framework 4.8

1. Open the PDF file


2. Click the Refresh Button in the Checker Tab.



You get a report with a symbol
for every PDF/UA checkpoint



3. Go top down from one cross or warning to the next and
   fix the accessibility issue by choosing the related tool.
   If necessary click the triangle to see more details.







4. After every fixing step go back to the Checker Tab
   and click the Refresh Button.
   Now the cross or warning of the fixed issue
   should have changed to a check mark.


5. When you only have check marks
   in your report go to the Preview Tab,
   click the Refresh Button and
   visually check your PDF.


6. If everything is fine - congrats!
   You have created your first PDF/UA compliant PDF file.

Interesting?

• Contact NewFormat for a quote on axesPDF