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regions are renumbered to show the new reading order. You can select and move multiple, adjacent

regions (See “Figure 25 Acrobat 9 Pro Order Panel” on page 38).

Editing Tags with the TouchUp Reading Order Tool

You can use the TouchUp Reading Order tool to create tags in untagged PDFs or to add new tags to an

existing structure. However, this manual tagging doesn’t provide the same level of detail to the tagging

structure as the Add Tags To Document command, such as paragraphs, bulleted and numbered lists, line

breaks, and hyphens. Before you clear the existing structure, make sure that manual tagging is your only

recourse.

Tag a region

• Using the TouchUp Reading Order tool, drag within the document pane to select a region of the

page that contains one type of content (for example, a text block).

Do one of the following:

• To add more page content to the current selection, Shift-drag.

• To remove page content from the current selection, Ctrl-drag/Command-drag.

Click the appropriate button in the TouchUp Reading Order dialog box to specify the tag type.

Change the tag for a region

If Acrobat tags a page element incorrectly, you can change the tag type for the highlighted region.

• Select the TouchUp Reading Order tool.

• In the TouchUp Reading Order dialog box, select Show Page Content Order.

To select a highlighted region, do one of the following:

• Drag to select it.

• Click the number of a highlighted region.

• Click the button for the tag type that you want for the highlighted region.

Add or remove content from a tagged region

The TouchUp Reading Order tool always displays as few highlighted regions as possible. If content within a

highlighted region doesn’t flow properly, you may need to split a region to reorder it. Highlighted regions

may also contain adjacent page content that is unrelated or that requires a different tag type. Page content

may become orphaned from related elements, particularly if the content doesn’t fit within a rectangular

shape. Use the TouchUp Reading Order tool to add or remove content from a region, or to split a region to

reorder the content.

• Select the TouchUp Reading Order tool.

• In the TouchUp Reading Order dialog box, select Show Page Content Order.

• In the document pane, select a highlighted region.

Do one of the following:

• To add content to the current selection, Shift-click the content you want to add. The pointer

changes to include a plus sign (+).

• To remove content from the current selection, Ctrl-click/Command-click the content you want to

remove. The pointer changes to include a minus sign (-).

Click the button for the tag type that you want for the highlighted region.

Split a region into two regions

• Select the TouchUp Reading Order tool.

Making PDF Accessible with Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro