Accessible PDFs carry tags that tell screen readers what each part of a page is, such as a heading, a paragraph or a table, and in what order to read it. This shows them for the page you are on.
Steps
- Go to the page.
- In the rail, choose Review, then Reading order in the Accessibility group. The Accessibility tab of the left panel opens on Reading order. The panel's other tabs stay where they are: choose any of them to go back to it.
- The panel lists each item in the order a screen reader reads it, with plain names such as Heading 1, Paragraph or List label, indented to show nesting, and how many lines of text each holds.
- Choose an item. The page marks the text it covers. Choose Clear the mark on the page to remove the mark.
- Turn to another page and the list follows you.
Good to know
- An item with no text, such as a picture, is listed but has nothing to mark.
- A page with no tags says so: a screen reader has no reading order to follow there.
- Text that is in no tag is counted, because a screen reader may skip it.
- It does not say whether the order matches the order on the page; check that by reading.
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