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Section 7: Creating tagged Adobe PDF
documents from web pages
This section describes how to convert HTML web pages to tagged Adobe PDF documents either directly from
Internet Explorer or from HTML pages that you have saved to a hard drive.
The information in this section applies to Acrobat 7.0 Professional.
Where you are in the PDF accessibility workflow
What to expect when converting web pages to tagged Adobe PDF
documents
An Adobe PDF document that you create from a web page is only as accessible as the HTML source code that it is
based on. For example, if the web page relies on tables for its layout design (as many web pages do), the HTML code
for the table may not flow in the same logical reading order as a tagged PDF document would require, even though
the HTML code is sufficiently structured to display all the elements correctly in a browser.
Depending on the complexity of the web page, you may need to do extensive repairs by using the TouchUp Reading
Order tool or editing the tag tree in Acrobat 7.0 Professional.
To produce the most accessible PDF documents from web pages, first create the web pages to read in a logical reading
order in their HTML code. For best results, employ the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines that are published by
the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The guidelines are available on the W3C website, www.w3.org.
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