Hide decorative text from screenreader

[Guest]

Hi! I have a project, where a header from a previous page is repeated on the following page, to make navigation easier. This is purely for visual navigation though, and messes up navigation in screenreaders (as well as giving me a repeat header in my table of contents). Is there a way to hide the text for screenreaders without turning the text into an image? (I have tried to include it as an image, but sadly the printer then makes it look different to the other headers.)

[raeben3 · Accepted solution]

Hi - 

You don't mention what software you are using to author this -- Word, Indesign, ??   If you are working in Windows with Word, when installed  Acrobat will install a PDF Maker which is a Toolbar in Word. If you place the repeating header content in the Word header region it should be converted to an Artifact in the PDF if you make it with PDF Maker.  Any content in the header or footer (like a page number) will become an artifact and will not be read by a screen reader. 

If you are using another method to make your PDF you may have to convert these items to artifacts in Acrobat Professional.  You can click on them in Acrobat or select them in the Tags Panel, right click and choose Convert to artifact,

Hope that helps!

[Guest]

Oh, sorry, I'm using Indesign. I'll look into artifact convertion then, thank you!

ETA: I changed the offending h1 to a copy of my h1 paragraph style, and labelled it as an artifact. Worked perfectley! Thanks again!