Adobe Acrobat 9 PRO Extended - Manual (Page 307)

301 USING ACROBAT 9 PRO EXTENDED
Accessibility, tags, and reflow
Last updated 9/30/2011
Find Searches for unmarked (untagged) artifacts, content, comments, and links. Options allow you to search the page
or document, and to add tags to found items.
Create Artifact Defines selected objects as artifacts. Artifacts are not read by a screen reader or by the Read Out Loud
feature. Page numbers, headers, and footers are often best tagged as artifacts.
Remove Artifact Removes the artifact definition from the selected object.
Highlight Content When selected, highlights appear in the document pane around content that relates to a selected
object in the Content tab.
Show Metadata Allows viewing and editing of image or object metadata.
Properties Opens the TouchUp Properties dialog box.
About the Tags tab
The Tags tab allows you to view and edit tags in the logical structure tree, or tags tree, of a PDF. In the Tags tab, tags
appear in a hierarchical order that indicates the reading sequence of the document. The first item in this structure is
the Tags root. All other items are tags and are children of the Tags root. Tags use coded element types that appear in
angle brackets (
< > ). Each element, including structural elements such as sections and articles, appears in the logical
structure order by type, followed by a title and the element’s content or a description of the content. Structural
elements are typically listed as container—or parent—tags and include several smaller elements—or child tags—
within them.
Note: For more information on logical structures, refer to the PDF Reference Sixth Edition: Adobe Portable Document
Format Version 1.7, on the
PDF reference page (English only) of the Adobe website.
Though you can correct most tagging issues by using the TouchUp Reading Order tool, you must use the Tags tab to
address detailed tagging of tables and substructure items—such as paragraphs, lists, and sections that require multiple
languages. Add tags manually to a document in the Tags tab only as a last resort. First consider using the Add Tags To
Document command.
Important: Operations performed in the Tags tab cannot be undone with the Undo command. Save a backup copy of a
document before you begin work on it in the Tags tab.
View tags in the Tags tab
1 Choose View > Navigation Panels > Tags.
2 Do one of the following:
• Expand the tag for the section you want.
• Ctrl-click the plus sign (Windows) or Option-click the triangle (Mac OS) next to the Tags root to show all tags in
the logical structure tree.
Edit tags with the Tags tab
You can edit a tag title, change a tag location, or change the tag type for an element. All page content must be tagged,
marked as an artifact, or removed from the logical structure tree.
Edit a tag title
1 In the Tags tab, expand the section of the logical structure that you want to edit.
2 To edit the title, Select the tag, choose Properties from the Options menu, enter text in the Title box, and click Close.