SAS System Options

PDFACCESS System Option

Specifies whether text and graphics from PDF documents can be read by screen readers for the visually impaired.

Requirement:	Adobe Acrobat Reader or Professional 5.0 and later versions
Valid in:	configuration file, SAS invocation, OPTIONS statement, SAS System Options window
Category:	Log and procedure output control: PDF
PROC OPTIONS GROUP=	PDF

Syntax
Syntax Description
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See Also

Syntax

PDFACCESS | NOPDFACCESS

Syntax Description

PDFACCESS: specifies that text and graphics from an ODS PDF document can be read by screen readers for the visually impaired.
NOPDFACCESS: specifies that text and graphics from an ODS PDF document cannot be read by screen readers for the visually impaired.

Details

When the PDFSECURITY system option is set to HIGH, SAS sets the PDFACCESS option. If the PDFSECURITY option is set to LOW or NONE, this option is not functional. When the PDFSECURITY option is set to NONE, screen readers can read PDF text and graphics.

The following document properties are set for this option:

Value of PDFACCESS	Value of PDFSECURITY	Document Properties
NOPDFACCESS	HIGH	Content Extraction for Accessibility is set to Not Allowed.