Equidox by Onix.
Accessible PDF Conversion— Reach Everyone.
Equidox Training— Text, Sensitivity Slider,
and Reading Order.
Most of your remediation work will be spent
working with various text.
Open your document in the Documents View
by choosing the Edit button or clicking the thumbnail.
This opens the Document Detail.
To edit your document,
choose the page you wish to edit and click on the thumbnail.
Here we see our document with the zones preset by Equidox.
Each zone shows a number in the corner.
This number indicates the reading order.
You can see that these zones are not in the correct order,
but all the text is correctly tagged into zones by paragraph.
To edit the reading order, click on the Page tab
and select the zone you wish to reorder.
Then type the correct zone number enter the Order field
or use the arrows to change it.
You can use decimals to reorder the zones.
This way you do not have to change
the zone number of every subsequent zone
in order to maintain the reading order of the rest of the page.
Notice that these paragraphs are also not ordered correctly.
Again, you can correct this by changing the zone order
using the order field in the Zone tab.
Now all the zones are correctly ordered.
Press the Save button to save this layout
and then choose the Preview button to check your work.
Zones 7 and 8 part of the same paragraph of text,
but have been placed in separate zones
due to the two-column format.
These should be read together as one block of text.
To correct this, choose the second of the two fields,
and then click the Merge button in the Zone tab
under Text Properties.
Now, after saving,
the preview will show these two zones merged as one paragraph.
Once your page is remediated,
choose the Mark Page as Validated button
and then choose the right arrow from the page advance.
On this next page,
we see that the text is separated into zones by line
rather than as one zone surrounding
the entire paragraph.
To correct this,
use the Sensitivity slider located under the Page tab
and adjust it by either moving the bar with your mouse
or selecting the bar
and using the arrow keys to move it forward or back
until the zone is correctly auto-detected.
Once the zone is set correctly, you can save your layout
by pressing the Save This Layout button.
Pressing the Preview button shows your text tagged
as one paragraph.
Mark your page as validated and press the Close button.
Equidox will automatically save your document.
From the Document Detail,
you can choose to add a label to your completed document.
To learn how to add labels,
view the Equidox Training Administration video.
Don't forget to press the Save button
after adding or deleting any labels.
Now we can examine another page of text.
We can use the Sensitivity slider again
to adjust the zones to most closely reflect
how the elements should be tagged.
This is quite close, and we can fix this
particular bit of separated text by deleting the extraneous zone
and using the mouse or the zone position fields
to extend the zone around the entire paragraph.
We can remove any unneeded elements such as page numbers.
This page contains text in a second language.
To set the second language correctly,
select the zone containing the second language text
and choose the correct language from the Language dropdown box
under Zone properties.
Then, choose Save This Layout and preview the page.
When you have finished your remediation,
choose Mark Page As Validated
and move to the next page or close the document.
Equidox will automatically save your work
when you choose Mark Page As Validated.
You can add a label, if you wish,
to the completed document.
This next document shows us some examples of text and columns.
Choose Edit
and then select a page of the document to be remediated.
Here we see our text arranged in a two-column format.
However, the reading order is incorrect.
To resolve this, go to the Page tab
and from the Reading Order dropdown box, choose 2 Columns.
Then press the Re Order button.
Now the text zones are in the correct reading order.
However, some text that belongs in the same paragraph
is not in the same zone.
To correct this, choose the second zone
and then choose Merge from the text properties in the Zone tab.
Choose Save This Layout, and then an HTML preview
will show our text in the correct reading order
with alt text in the correct paragraphs.
On this page we have three columns of text.
As before, the zones are not in the correct reading order.
The same procedure applies. Go to the Page tab
and choose 3 Columns from the dropdown box under
Reading Order then press Re Order.
Equidox will correct the reading order,
and we can merge the text zones as needed.
Then, save this layout and preview the page.
Mark the page as validated and move to the next page.
On this page, we have varying layouts of text.
The reading order must be corrected
but simply reordering by column
will not resolve issues with multiple layouts.
For this issue, we will use the div zone.
The first two zones can be left as they are.
Draw a new zone around the zones in the next layout type
that shows two columns
and selective from the zone types in the Zone tab.
This brings up a section called Sub Reading Order.
Select 2 Columns under Sub Reading Order,
and then click on Re Order This Div.
Equidox will reorder the zones using decimals within the div.
Then we can merge any zones as required within a div.
For the next section of zones, draw a new zone
and, again, select Div.
Note that Equidox has renumbered this div zone
with the available zone number 3.
This must be corrected before reordering the div
so that the reading order will be correct.
Renumber the div so that it is numerically
after the preceding zone which is now number 13.
The zone numbers do not have to be consecutive
so long as they are in the correct numerical order.
Now when we reorder the div,
the decimals fall into the correct reading order
after the previous div.
After merging the zones
that belong in the same paragraph,
we can save this layout and preview the page.
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For more information on using Equidox,
visit our Training Video page or see the User Guide.