Skip to main content
Known Participant
May 9, 2025
Answered

Apply different tag to images for accessibility pdf

  • May 9, 2025
  • 1 reply
  • 220 views

In my InDesign document I have equations as images, in accessibility pdf it as tagged as <Figure> automatically, I need to tag it as <Formula>, how can I do it from InDesign through InDesign scripting

Correct answer Eugene Tyson

Indesign afaik will only tag as figure, even if you can change it by script the pdf will still show figure not formula

 

To achieve proper <Formula> tagging:

Post-process the PDF in Adobe Acrobat Pro using the Tags panel:

Locate the <Figure> tags.

Right-click and change the tag to <Formula>.

Save the PDF.

Or use a PDF remediation tool like CommonLook, Pac3, or AxesPDF to automate this.

1 reply

Eugene TysonCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
May 9, 2025

Indesign afaik will only tag as figure, even if you can change it by script the pdf will still show figure not formula

 

To achieve proper <Formula> tagging:

Post-process the PDF in Adobe Acrobat Pro using the Tags panel:

Locate the <Figure> tags.

Right-click and change the tag to <Formula>.

Save the PDF.

Or use a PDF remediation tool like CommonLook, Pac3, or AxesPDF to automate this.