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August 7, 2025
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Barrierefreiheit-Tags fehlt Artifact-Tag

  • August 7, 2025
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Hallo, kann mir jemand helfen. In Adobe Acrobat Pro - Barrierefreiheit-Tags fehlt mir seit einigen Tagen das Tag Artifact.

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Legend
August 7, 2025

Hi @barbara_TKS

 

Thanks for reaching out. Sorry for the trouble. 

What do you mean you are missing "Artifact tag"? Could you please elaborate on your workflow?

 

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

Participant
August 11, 2025

Good morning, thank you for the reply.  I have to problems. The first problem that I have I followed your instrustion but still can not see or add the artifact container to Tags. Here is a screen shot so you can see what I am experience: 

and the other problem is, when I want to change an existing Tag to Artifact it is no longer in the drop down.