Introduction
This guide will show how to add tags to your PDF document and how to add alt text to the images within Acrobat. Tags are important for screen readers and Yuja Panorama to read the document for its accessibility report, documents without tags often read as 0% accessibility score.
Yuja- Editing issues within the Accessibility Checker
First, Locate a PDF and click the icon next to it in your files area
click view for the accessibility report
It should list the issues for the document, click learn more for Yuja recommended guides on the issue or click Fix Issue to address it within Yuja.
Editing issues within the Adobe Acrobat
For PDF files it is not uncommon to see this issue claiming the document is untagged with a 0% accessibility score. for these you will need to download the file and open it within Adobe Acrobat.
Next, click the Tag Icon in the upper right, right-click No Tags Available, then click Auto-Tag document
If you do not see this option you may need to turn the icon on. You can do so by clicking Menu in the upper left corner >View > Show/Hide > Side Panels >
Accessibility Tags
Set Alternate Text
Once you open up the Accessibility tags area you can Auto tag the document to give you a baseline to work with. It will tag the document to be able to be read by a screen reader more appropriately and give you lines you can edit to more accurately reflect what an image is.
From here we have two ways to add the alt text.
I find the Set Alternative Text button to the tool bar (if you don’t already have it) faster as it can jump from one image to the next and anything that isn’t relevant to describe just mark as decorative and screen readers will ignore them.
to turn on the Icon you will need to click the three dots in the icon dashboard and click Customize Toolbar
You will see a list of tool categories, scroll near the bottom for Prepare for Accessibility dropdown and expand it. then select the Set Alternative Text icon > Then click the Add to Toolbar button and hit Save in the bottom right of the window
Adding Alt Text and Marking an Image as Decorative
Now that the Set Alternative Text button is in your tool dashboard click it and you should receive this window that will highlight images in order through your document where you can add Alt Text to the images or mark them as decorative. click the blue arrow icon to jump to the next image in the document.
