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Section 2.1: Saving as a Tagged PDF

When you optimize create a source document for accessibility and with accessibility in mind, you can convert it to a tagged PDF, you are using . This is considered a type of automated automatic tagging . Because because you 've have already applied accessibility features in the source document, they . The features will carry over during conversion. This Using this type of automatic tagging is good and will make your life easier.

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Section 2.2: Creating Tags Automatically

Now that your document is in Adobe Acrobat, you have to tag it your document to allow screen readers to read it properly. There are two ways to tag your document, you can tag it automatically or do it yourself. To Tag Automatically,

  1. Go to the Tools Tab.

    Tools Tab in Adobe Acrobat.
  2. Find the “Accessibility” Tool, and click Add.

    Accessibility Tool in Adobe Acrobat. Below the icon is a button that says add.
  3. With the Accessibility Tool open, click Autotag Document

    Autotag Document Button in Adobe Acrobat.
  4. The Accessibility Tags will appear on the left side of your screen. Remember, the software can make mistakes. So be sure to check every tag to be sure it is labeled correctly. Also be sure it is in the correct spot, and does not disrupt the reading order. You can see in our example that we do have tags created and many of them are correct. However, however they are not in the correct order. To fix this issue, you can click on each tag and place them inside the tags above them in a hierarchytheir “parent” tags. For example, place everything that belongs in your heading 2 tags inside the heading 2 tag. Then, then place all of the heading 2 tags into the heading 1 tag. Examples on how to do this will be demonstrated in other sections of this course.

    Example of Accessibility Tags

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