Barrierefreiheit-Tags fehlt Artifact-Tag

In PDF accessibility workflows, an artifact is non-essential content (such as decorative images, lines, or backgrounds) that should be ignored by screen readers and reflow modes. Artifact tagging is part of WCAG and PDF/UA compliance. Acrobat allows you to tag elements as artifacts using the Content panel or Reading Order tool.

“Create Artifact” option might be unavailable, due to:

• Acrobat sometimes displays the “Create Artifact” action as greyed out in the Content panel. This is often due to:

  • The element is part of a protected or flattened structure

  • Adobe bugs or idiosyncrasies in older versions of Acrobat Pro

   

You may try:

• Opening the Content panel, locating the element

• Selecting it manually

• Choosing “Create Artifact” from the context menu

• If this still doesn’t work, using the Reading Order tool to mark the item as “Background” can help register it properly in the tag tree

Let's try Step-by-step troubleshooting:

1. Open Tools → Accessibility → Reading Order.
2. Draw a box around the decorative item.
3. Press Background to mark it as an artifact.
4. Open the Tags panel, confirm the corresponding element has role /Artifact.
5. If not listed, in the Content panel, right-click the element, choose Create Artifact manually.

Let us know how it works.

Best regards,
Tariq | Adobe Community Team