Acrobat - accessibility - How can I separate two tags that got merged together?

[coopjack]

I am working on a PDF. Somehow, two tags – a Head and Body Text – got merged.

How do I separate them and correct this situation? The Vision Coverage should be the H1 and the "All officers…" should be the <P> text.

[Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com · Accepted solution]

Use Acrobat Pro's Reading Order Tool to reselect the content and retag it.

1. Order Panel
2. Options menu
3. Show Reading Order Tools
4. The cursor now is a crosshairs.
5. Drag around and select the letters for Vision Coverage and choose Heading 1 from the order tools.
6. The remaining text should stay as a <P>, but if necessary, drag and select "All Officers and..." and tag it Text/Paragraph.
7. Switch to the tags panel and check that you got what you wanted.
8. Artifact any unnecessary empty <P>tags that are left over. Once empty, they can be safely deleted.

Separate and re-tag content.

When completed, the Order panel looks like this:

Re-tagged shown in the Order Panel.

And looks like this in the Tags Panel:

Re-tagged in the Tags Panel.

[coopjack]

Thank you – that was super helpful.