Remove all tags from a pdf, Replace the existing tag structure, Setting accessibility preferences – Adobe Acrobat XI User Manual
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Accessibility, tags, and reflow
Last updated 1/14/2015
Remove all tags from a PDF
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Open the Tags panel (View > Show/Hide > Navigation Panels > Tags) and select the root (topmost) tag, Tags.
2
In the Tags panel, select Delete Tag from the options menu.
Note: The Clear Page Structure command in the Touch Up Reading Order dialog box removes all tags from the currently
visible pages.
Replace the existing tag structure
This procedure works best in pages that contain a single column of text. If the page contains multiple columns, each
column must be selected and tagged individually.
1
Select the tool.
2
In the document pane, drag to select the entire page. The selection includes both text and nontext elements.
3
Ctrl-drag around nontext page elements, such as figures and captions, to deselect them, until only text is selected on
the page. Click Text in the Touch Up Reading Order dialog box.
4
In the document pane, select a nontext page element, such as a figure and caption, and click the appropriate button
in the dialog box to tag it. Repeat until all page content is tagged.
More Help topics
Reading PDFs with reflow and accessibility features
Setting accessibility preferences
Acrobat provides several preferences that help make the reading of PDFs more accessible for visually impaired and
motion-impaired users. These preferences control how PDFs appear on the screen and how they are read by a screen
reader.
Most preferences related to accessibility are available through the Accessibility Setup Assistant, which provides
onscreen instructions for setting these preferences. Some preferences that affect accessibility aren’t available through
the AccessibilitySetup Assistant including preferences in the Reading, Forms, and Multimedia categories. You can set
all preferences in the Preferences dialog box.
The names shown for some preferences in the Accessibility Setup Assistant are different from the names for the same
preferences shown in the Preferences dialog box. Acrobat Help uses the names shown in the Preferences dialog box.
For more information about accessibility features, see