| 41 Acrobat 9 Pro PDF Accessibility Repair Workflow
• New Tag . Creates a new tag in the logical structure tree after the currently selected item.
Specify type and title of the new tag.
• Cut . Removes the selected tag from its current location and puts it on the clipboard.
• Paste . Places the tag that’s on the clipboard into the location specified, replacing the
selected tag.
• Paste Child . Places the tag that’s on the clipboard into the location specified, as a child of
the selected tag.
• Delete Tag . Removes the selected tag.
• Find Tag From Selection . Searches for the tag in the Tags tab that contains the text or
object selected in the document pane.
• Create Tag From Selection . Creates a new tag in the logical structure tree after the item
selected in the document pane. Specify type and title of the new tag.
• Find . Searches for artifacts, OCR suspects, and unmarked (untagged) content, comments,
links, and annotations. Options allow you to search the page or document and add tags to
found items.
• Change Tag To Artifact . Changes selected tags to artifacts and removes the tagged
content from the structure tree.
• Copy Contents To Clipboard . Copies all content contained within the selected tags.
• Edit Class Map . Allows you to add, change, and delete the class map, or style dictionary,
for the document. Class maps store attributes that are associated with each element.
• Edit Role Map . Allows you to add, change, and delete role maps for the document. Role
maps allow each document to contain a uniquely defined tag set. By mapping these
custom tags to predefined tags in Acrobat, custom tags are easier to identify and edit.
• Tag Annotations . When selected, all new comments and form fields are added to the tag
tree after the selected tag element; existing comments and form fields aren’t added to the
tag tree. Highlight and Underline comments are automatically associated and tagged with
the text that they annotate and don’t require this option.
• Document Is Tagged PDF . Flags the PDF as a tagged document. Deselect to remove the
flag.
Important: This option doesn’t necessarily indicate that the PDF conforms to PDF guidelines and
should be used judiciously.
• Highlight Content . When selected, causes highlights to appear around content in the
document pane when you select the related tag in the Tags tab.
• Show Metadata . Opens a read-only dialog box that contains reference information about
the selected tag.
• Properties . Opens the TouchUp Properties dialog box.
Add alternate text and supplementary information to tags
Some tagged PDFs might not contain all the information necessary to make the document contents fully
accessible. For example, if you want to make a document available to a screen reader, the PDF should
contain alternate text for figures, language properties for portions of the text that use a different language
than the default language for the document, and expansion text for abbreviations. Designating the
appropriate language for different text elements ensures that the correct characters are used when you
repurpose the document and that it is spell-checked with the correct dictionary.
Making PDF Accessible with Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro