Aus InDesign soll ein barrierefreies PDF erstellt werden. Sollte das PDF Export Tag H1 im Dokument nur einmal (für den Titel) vergeben werden? Kapitelüberschriften beginnen mit H1?

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July 11, 2026
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Also zum Beispiel:

Titel - H1
Kapitel A - H2, A 1 - H3, A 1.1. - H4

Kapitel B - H2, B 1 - H3, B1.1 - H4

Ich habe mit Titel H und dann weiter H1 für die Kapitel gearbeitet. Das gefällt PAC nicht! :(

Correct answer Frans v.d. Geest

The Title is not part of the Hierarchy, in pdf2.0/pdf-UA2 we have the Title tag, in pdf1.7/pdf-UA1 we don’t. The Title is NOT a Heading level, see the pdfa.org site for more on this. Titles in pdf1.7/pdf-ua1 should therefore be simply P, the H1 to H6 levels are reserved for the hierarchy following the title. The Title is its own metadata that can be recalled in screen readers like NVDA and Jaws. The H tag without a number does not exist in pdf.
https://pdfa.org/how-to-tag-titles-in-pdf-documents/

Frans v.d. Geest

Correct answer

Community Expert

The Title is not part of the Hierarchy, in pdf2.0/pdf-UA2 we have the Title tag, in pdf1.7/pdf-UA1 we don’t. The Title is NOT a Heading level, see the pdfa.org site for more on this. Titles in pdf1.7/pdf-ua1 should therefore be simply P, the H1 to H6 levels are reserved for the hierarchy following the title. The Title is its own metadata that can be recalled in screen readers like NVDA and Jaws. The H tag without a number does not exist in pdf.
https://pdfa.org/how-to-tag-titles-in-pdf-documents/

Randy Hagan

Community Expert

That may well be true, but it was tagged in the hierarchy. The tagging, I believe, was the issue. And when fixed was the end of his issue.

So maybe not so wrong.

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UserBAuthor

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I noticed that, and I'll definitely be back! ;)

Thanks

Randy Hagan

Community Expert

You’re on the right track here, in that hierarchical assumptions are being made as you format your InDesign documents.

I suspect that your issues center on the change between the hierarchy for Chapter A and what you’re doing for Title H. If they’re in the same document/book, that switch between the hierarchy will automatically fire alerts. If you’re setting a title and chapter heads for Title H, that creates a nonsensical hierarchy — not in your head, but in your document’s layout — that will fire alerts as well. You don’t necessarily have to assign every tag h1-h6, but you do have to provide a consistent schema where your H-tagged headers go from top to wherever you deem the bottom header format.

Hope this helps,

Randy

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UserBAuthor

Participating Frequently

Hi Randy,
I've now updated my entire document using “Edit All Export Tags.” So I changed H1 to H2, H2 to H3, and so on.
It worked.
I'm happy!
Thank you so much!

Randy Hagan

Community Expert

Cool. I’m glad this has worked well for you.

Can I ask a favor? Could you mark the response to your post with “best answer”? Not because I’m begging for acceptance, but by marking it answered, it will flag the moderators to show these solutions for other folks posting with the same or similar problems.

And whenever you have a problem with InDesign — ore any Adobe application, for that matter — feel free to come back to these forums and sound the alarm. There are a lot of sharp folks around here who are willing to help as they can.

Randy

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