PDF scanner reports

View a report of all the accessibility issues in your PDFs with the areas of issues highlighted.

After a PDF scan is complete, the PDF scanner generates a report that illustrates all the accessibility issues in the PDF. You can view these reports in the PDF scanner section on the Accessibility Testing Dashboard.

To view a PDF scan report, follow these steps:

1. Launch Accessibility Testing Dashboard.
2. In the navigation menu, click PDF scanner. The PDF scanner page lists all the PDF scan reports. It has the following columns:
   • Reports: The report’s name, the user who ran the PDF scan, and the time of the scan run.
   • Summary: A preview of the spread of the issues across different pages and PDF metadata.
   • Issue breakdown: A split of the issues as per PDF/UA-2 and WCAG 2.2 standards.
3. Click the report that you want to view. You can search for the report by the user or scan name.
4. On the report page that you open, you can view the following tabs:
   • All issues: Shows all the issues related to both PDF/UA-2 and WCAG 2.2 standards.
   • PDF/UA-2: Shows the issues related to the PDF/UA-2 standard.
   • WCAG 2.2: Shows the issues related to the WCAG 2.2 standard.
5. The issues are classified according to Page Content and Metadata. Also, the right pane displays a snapshot of the PDF. You can click on any specific issue to know more details.
6. When you click an issue, the PDF Scanner highlights the parts of the PDF that have that particular issue, on the right pane.