Tagged PDF

PDF tags provide a hidden structured, textual representation of the PDF content that is presented to screen readers. For example, documents that have visual lists can be tagged with list tags, documents that have visual data tables can be tagged with table tags, etc. They exist for accessibility purposes only and have no visible effect on the PDF file. When a PDF is created from an office file, initial tags will be generated based on the content of the office file and the styles used.

 

reveal the tags panelView tags in the Tags panel

The first step is to locate the Tags Panel in Adobe Acrobat DC. The next module will explore the Tag Panel in depth as screen-readers interpret PDFs primarily the Tags Panel.

Choose View > Show/Hide > Navigation Panels > Tags.
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.

 

Deeper Dive in the Tags Panel

The next module is dedicated to editing the Tags Panel.