2 Replies Latest reply: Oct 8, 2014 12:13 PM by a C student

How to make headers/footers readable in tagged PDF

Accessible PDFs Oct 8, 2014 12:29 AM

I am creating PDF from word file. I have headers/footers in it. When converting word to PDF i.e. Tagged PDF, headers/footers are being Artifacts and are not readable by screen readers. My issue is that i want to make headers/footers readable in Tagged PDF. Is there any possible way to do this or to prevent headers/footers from being Artifacts while conversion. Kindly help.

1. Re: How to make headers/footers readable in tagged PDF

CtDave Oct 8, 2014 10:56 AM (in response to Accessible PDFs)

Headers and Footers are by design and convention "artifacts".
You can manually fold these into a tagged PDF's structure tree.
Be sure that you use the proper elemenents (tags) in the proper location.
To be an Accessible PDF the PDF must be ISO 14289-1 (the ISO standard for PDF/UA) compliant.

Be well...
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2. Re: How to make headers/footers readable in tagged PDF

a C student Oct 8, 2014 12:13 PM (in response to Accessible PDFs)

The ISO 14289 (PDF/UA) standard costs $, by the way, but the compliance criteria, known as the "Matterhorn Protocol" is available for free, http://www.pdfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/MatterhornProtocol_1-02.pdf. Also free, a "Reference Suite" of example PDF/UA-compliant documents, http://www.pdfa.org/publication/pdfua-reference-suite/ and validation tool (to the extent that validation can be automated), http://www.access-for-all.ch/en/pdf-lab/pdf-accessibility-checker-pac/downloading-pac.html.
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