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From: Jasper Cole
Date: Tue, Aug 05 2014 7:18AM
Subject: Adobe Acrobat Tags
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I'm wondering if anyone has any advice or helpful resources for making accessible PDFs.

I've read the WebAIM suggestions for PDFs (http://webaim.org/techniques/acrobat/acrobat), but I've found that these suggestions are optimistic. Even using Acrobat's built in file converter, documents are routinely produced with extremely messy and problematic tags. I worry that this could result in failing WCAG 3.2.4, 4.1.1, and 4.1.2.

I am more than willing to retag documents manually, but I have found Acrobat's built in tools to be glitchy, hard to use, and inconsistent. I really wish I could edit the document manually as you can with an HTML page. A text view seems far superior to the confusing "Tags" panel in Adobe Acrobat (I'm using version XI Pro).

So if anyone knows any methods to create better tags, I'd be very interested in hearing about it..

Thanks so much!
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Jasper Cole

From: Olaf Drümmer
Date: Tue, Aug 05 2014 7:27AM
Subject: Re: Adobe Acrobat Tags
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Hi Jasper,

On 5 Aug 2014, at 15:18, Jasper Cole < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:

> So if anyone knows any methods to create better tags, I'd be very interested in hearing about it..

a tool dedicated to establishing and fixing accessible tags in PDFs is CommonLook PDF (cf. http://www.commonlook.com/CommonLook-PDF ). It should make you much more productive than the toolset provided by Adobe Acrobat Pro.

And as always: if you can create (more or less) accessible PDF right away from the authoring program, that would be a much easier and more efficient approach. I do understand that it is not always viable.


Olaf