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Request auto-remediation of a PDF file

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Before requesting auto-remediation, you must test the PDF file to identify any accessibility issues. 
Note: Auto-remediation can be applied to a PDF only once. After processing is complete, all automatically remediated issues are marked as Auto-fixed.

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What's PDF auto-remediation?

PDF auto-remediation makes your PDFs accessible faster, at scale.  It automatically transforms non-accessible PDFs into conformant, accessible documents, so that your team can meet compliance requirements without the manual effort.

It combines advanced OCR technology with AI-powered content analysis to reconstruct and remediate PDF accessibility issues automatically. With PDF auto-remediation, Level Access can:

  • Rebuild document structure: Automatically regenerates a complete, logically ordered tag tree based on visual analysis of your PDF

  • Restore reading order: Corrects content flow so that screen readers present information in the intended sequence

  • Generate alt text for images, charts, and links: AI-powered descriptions are created for non-text content, while any existing human-written alt text is always preserved.

  • Fix heading hierarchy: Detects and correctly tags heading levels throughout the document.

  • Remediate tables: Tags table structure, headers, and cell associations for full assistive technology support

  • Flag decorative content: Artifacts and decorative elements are identified and excluded from assistive technology output.

  • Support PDF/UA-1: Remediates documents to meet the ISO PDF Universal Accessibility standard.

Request PDF auto-remediation

To request PDF auto-remediation:

  1. Navigate to the workspace or digital asset level. 
  2. Under Find and Fix, select PDF.
  3. Find and select the PDF you want to remediate.  The PDF must have the following statuses: Tested.  
  4. Select Request auto-remediation. The PDF is remediated and becomes ready for download. A link to the PDF appears in the upper right corner.  

Note: If the Request auto-remediation button is grayed out, the PDF has already been auto-remediated. The  button may also be unavailable for legacy PDF files that are not supported for auto-remediation.

Once your PDF auto-remediation is complete, you can review the PDF auto-remediation report on the Auto-remediation tab, view the auto-remediated PDF, or download it. 

View or download the auto-remediated PDF 

To view the auto-remediated PDF:

  1. Display the Auto-remediated tab.
  2. Perform one of the following steps: 
    1. In the Findings column, select the View # failed findings link. The PDF is displayed at the location of the first finding.
    • Select Download auto-remediated PDF. When the auto-remediated PDF is downloaded successfully, locate it in the Download section of your computer, and then open it for viewing.

View PDF auto-remediation report

Review the report to learn:

  • Which accessibility issues were automatically fixed.

  • Whether previously failing rules have been resolved.

  • The improvement from the original results to the remediated results.

 The following table lists the status of each issue, its meaning, and chip color.  

Status Meaning Chip color
Auto-fixed Issues that were successfully resolved through auto-remediation. Blue
Passed  Issues that passed the accessibility test. Green
Failed

Issues that could not be fixed by auto-remediation and still require manual review.

 Red

 

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