Adding Accessible Text To Graphics; Converting Indesign Cs Documents To Tagged Adobe Pdf Documents - Adobe 22001438 - Acrobat - PC Manual

Section 4: Creating tagged Adobe PDF documents from word-processing and desktop publishing applications
InDesign CS document tags
For instructions on using the InDesign CS Structure pane to arrange the sequence of frame tags, see "About using
Acrobat structure tags for PDF export" in InDesign CS Help.

Adding accessible text to graphics

You can use the Structure pane to add alternate text to graphics in an InDesign CS document before converting the
file to PDF. To make a graphic accessible to screen readers, apply one of the following alternate-text attributes to the
graphic's tag:
• ActualText. This attribute is intended to present any words that are represented as a graphic (that is, words that
have been made into a graphical element). You should keep ActualText short, and have the text exactly replicate
whatever text is in the graphic.
This attribute is meant to fully describe a graphic or its content to convey information about the graphic.
• Alt text.
For instructions on using the InDesign CS Structure pane to add alternate text to graphics tags, see "About using
Acrobat structure tags for PDF export" in InDesign CS Help.

Converting InDesign CS documents to tagged Adobe PDF documents

Once you have created a document in InDesign CS, you convert it to a tagged Adobe PDF document by using the
Export command and the procedure described in the following steps. Do not create the PDF document using Adobe
PDF Printer unless the file is to be a PDF form with fillable form fields. Adobe PDF Printer always produces an
untagged PDF document, which means that you must add tags and alternate text to the PDF document in
Acrobat 7.0.
Note: If you have created a form that is to be fillable, first produce an untagged PDF document from InDesign CS by using
Adobe PDF Printer. Add fillable form fields in Acrobat Professional, and then tag the file by using Acrobat or Adobe PDF
Forms Access. See "Section 8: Making Adobe PDF forms accessible" on page 39 for instructions.
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