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Accessibility, tags, and reflow
Last updated 4/7/2015
In Acrobat Pro DC, the logical structure tree appears on the Tags panel. It shows document content as page elements
nested at various levels.
More Help topics
Reading PDFs with reflow and accessibility features
Creating accessible PDFs
Touch Up Reading Order tool for PDFs (Acrobat Pro)
Editing document structure with the Content and Tags panels(Acrobat Pro)
Keys for accessibility (Acrobat Pro)
Touch Up Reading Order tool for PDFs (Acrobat Pro DC)
Touch Up Reading Order tool overview
The Touch Up Reading Order tool provides the easiest and quickest way to fix reading order and basic tagging
problems. When you select the Touch Up Reading Order tool, a dialog box opens that lets you see overlay highlights
that show the order of page content. Each highlighted region is numbered and highlighted with gray or colored blocks;
the number indicates the region’s placement in the page’s reading order. After you check the reading order of the page,
you can correct other, more subtle tagging issues as needed.
The Touch Up Reading Order tool is intended for repairing PDFs that were tagged using Acrobat, not for repairing
PDFs that were tagged during conversion from an authoring application. Whenever possible, return to the source file
and add accessibility features in the authoring application. Repairing the original file ensures that you don’t have to
repeatedly touch up future iterations of the PDF in Acrobat.
You use the Touch Up Reading Order tool to perform the following accessibility tasks:
• Visually check, and then repair, the reading order of page content
• Tag fillable form fields and their labels
• Add alternate text to figures and descriptions to form fields
• Fix the tagging of simple tables, and prepare complex tables for more advanced manipulation in the logical structure
tree
• Remove nonessential content, such as ornamental page borders, from the logical structure tree
To perform advanced reading order and tagging tasks, such as fixing complex tables, removing obsolete tags, and
adding alternate text to links, use the Tags panel. The panel contains an alternate set of tools and features for
manipulating PDF tags. For more information, see
Edit tags with the Tags panel.
Select the Touch Up Reading Order tool
• Choose Tools > Accessibility > Touch Up Reading Ord er to sele ct the Touch Up Reading Order to ol.
Tips for using the Touch Up Reading Order tool
• Save the document (or a copy of it) before you use the Touch Up Reading Order tool. You can’t use Undo to reverse
changes made with this tool, so reverting to a saved document is the only way to undo such a change.