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Tagging a PDF

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2011-03-03 01:56:41
Alange
Registered: Mar 3 2011
Posts: 1

I am looking to know how to tag a pdf document to make it accessible. When i try to manually tag a document, it gives me a lot of problems.
Tagging a table. (It is not in order)
Tagging a figure
Tagging a link if it is in 2 rows.
 

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 10.0, Windows
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2011-03-03 03:39:05
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UVSAR
Expert
Registered: Oct 29 2008
Posts: 1357
Automatically tagging a file with complex elements such as tables is not likely to work in the PDF - without the structure information from the original application, Acrobat has to guess about the order of elements and makes a number of assumptions, such as that tables are to be handled per-row not per-column. Floating figures are invariably not in the obvious place in the content stack, so their tags will usually need moving.

Fixing the tags isn't technically difficult but it can take a while - hence the idea of always exporting a tagged PDF from the original application if possible.Duff's eSeminar recording is worth watching to get a grounding on how and why the tags do what they do, and what fixes you can apply.
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