11.2.1 for Windows

Foxit PDF Editor
Chapter 12: Accessibility User Manual
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Check reading order and edit tags with the Reading Order
command
Reading order and document structure tags are two important characteristics of
accessible PDFs. The Reading Order command helps you easily check the reading
order and edit tags for PDFs. However, the command is used to fix basic tagging
problems for PDFs that were tagged with Foxit PDF Editor, not for PDFs that were
tagged during conversion from an authoring application. If possible, try to return to
the source file and add accessibility features in the authoring application.
Check the reading order for a tagged PDF
1. Open a tagged PDF document and click Accessibility > Reading Order, or right-
click any tag in the Tags panel and choose Reading Order.
2. The Touch Up Reading Order dialog box pops up, with options including different
tag types and the way to show page content groups.
3. In the document area, you can see the page content displays in separate regions
highlighted with gray blocks.
4. If you choose Page content order under the Show page content groups option,
the regions are ordered with numbers. Choose Structure types, then the regions
are labeled by structure tag types, like “P” for paragraph, “H2” for Heading 2, or
“Figure”.
5. If the numbered regions don’t follow one another, click Show Order Panel in the
Touch Up Reading Order dialog box, and reorder them in the Order panel.
Edit tags with the Reading Order command
You can tag a selected region, change the tag type for a region, as well as remove some
useless page elements, with the Reading Order command. Since editing tags with the
Reading Order command doesn’t create the same level of details to the tagging
structure as the tools in the Autotag group, you can use this manual tagging if you
don’t have any better method to edit the tags.
Notes:
1. Editing tags with the Reading Order command can’t be undone, so it is
recommended that you save a backup copy of this document before you edit tags.
2. You can select and edit multiple objects at a time under the Touch Up Reading Order
setting mode. To select multiple objects, Ctrl-click (i.e. hold down the Ctrl key as you