Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
10 results found in PDF accessibility.
- Adobe Acrobat (Acrobat Pro, Adobe Acrobat Pro, Acrobat DC)
- Adobe's commercial software suite for creating, editing, and managing PDF documents, including accessibility remediation features. Acrobat Pro includes tools for adding tags to PDF documents, setting …
- Artifact (PDF artifact, Background artifact)
- In PDF accessibility, an artifact is content that is marked as decorative or non-essential and should be ignored by assistive technologies. Examples include page numbers, headers/footers, decorative i…
- Borne-Accessible Document (born-accessible, natively accessible document)
- A document that is created accessibly from the outset—its semantic structure, headings, alt text, and tags are built in at authoring time rather than added later through remediation. Borne-accessible …
- Content tagging (Structural tagging, Semantic tagging)
- The process of adding structural markup to document content that identifies the role and meaning of each element. In PDF accessibility, content tagging involves marking regions of a document as paragr…
- Document Layout Analysis (DLA, page layout analysis)
- A computer-vision task that identifies and classifies the visual regions of a document page—headings, paragraphs, tables, figures, captions, lists, headers, and footers—typically using object-detectio…
- Document structure (Structural hierarchy, Document hierarchy)
- The logical organization of a document into meaningful components such as headings, sections, paragraphs, lists, and tables. Proper document structure enables assistive technology users to navigate ef…
- PDF Form (PDF Fillable Form, Interactive PDF Form, AcroForm)
- A PDF document that contains interactive form fields — text boxes, checkboxes, radio buttons, signatures, dropdowns — that users can fill in and submit electronically, rather than a static PDF meant o…
- PDF Tagging (Tagged PDF, PDF Tags)
- The process of adding a logical structure tree to a PDF so that assistive technologies can interpret the document's content, reading order, and semantics independently of its visual layout. Tags label…
- Table accessibility (Accessible tables, Data table accessibility)
- The practice of structuring data tables so they can be understood by assistive technology users. Accessible tables require proper markup that distinguishes header cells from data cells, establishes re…
- Tooltip (Form Field Tooltip, Accessible Name (PDF))
- In PDF forms, a tooltip is the programmatic label associated with a form field that assistive technologies read aloud when the user reaches that field. Unlike HTML, PDF does not have a native label-to…