PDFUA compliance
The PDFUA Compliance option located on the Menu bar allows you to check if your document is a PDF/Universal
Accessibility compliant file.
- PDF import wizard
- To import and check one or more PDF files, click PDF import wizard from the Menu bar, select one or more PDF files from your work station and click
Open, then Import. Your document or documents will be added in the FILES list.

- To check if your PDF files are PDFUA compliant, click Run accessibility check. If the validation fails, you are informed that your document does not meet the accessibility
requirements and will be marked with a red label, such as
, in the FILES list.
The validator generates warnings that can refer to specific indexes from the PDF associations Matterhorn Protocol 1.1. The pre-validator checks some of the conditions mentioned in chapter Input file requirements from the PDF2PDFUA Tool: Development User Guide.
To find more information about the displayed errors, search for the error ID in the Marterhorn protocol document.
Contact your PDF producer to investigate and solve this PDF error to obtain a PDF/UA file compatible output.
- Pre-accessibility checker
- If you want to check the PDFUA compliance for one or more existing PDF files, select
the files from the FILES list and click Pre-accessibility checker.

- You can also verify the PDFUA compliance by using the right-click menu in the FILES list. Right-click one or more PDF files and select Pre-accessibility checker from the menu.