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October 30, 2024
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How do I merge containers within an existing tag?

  • October 30, 2024
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I have a PDF that I'm attempting to make more accessible. I'm using Adobe Acrobat Pro (Continuous Release | Version 2004.003.20180). I ran the auto-tag function, which did a very good job. But there are some issues I'd like to fix. This document is very simple: just a single column of text divided into paragraphs. The tag and container structure, for most of the paragraphs, looks like this: 

 

But, in some paragraphs, the content is broken up into multiple containers. Here's a typical case, where the first line of the paragraph is in its own container, and the rest of the paragraph is in another one: 

From a scemantic markup standpoint, this bothers me, though, from an accessibility standpoint, it likely doesn't matter. But there are other situations where I suspect it would matter, where some of the containers overlap: 

The H1 tag at the top of this same document--the only thing in it that isn't in a P tag, is a similar case. Rather than having everything in one container in an H1, there are multiple containers, though they don't overlap: 

I'm new to Acrobat's accessibility tags feature, but I'm well versed in HTML/CSS/JS. It seems there should be an easy way to merge these containers w/o having to manually retag the entire document. It's tagged mostly very well. But there are a few paragraphs and this H1 that, as far as I can tell, need or would benefit from adjustment. 

Thanks for any help you can provide. I haven't found any videos or guides which address this direct problem. I don't have access to the original file, just the PDF. 

1 reply

Adobe Employee
November 1, 2024

Hi @WheatAtUARK ,

 

Please try the documenation at https://helpx.adobe.com/in/acrobat/using/editing-document-structure-content-tags.html to know how to edit the tags in tag panel. Hope this helps

 

Regards

Ravi

Participant
November 6, 2024

That's a 3,600-word article with multiple sections. I've bookmarked it for reference, as it seems useful in a general sense. Can you point me to what steps and/or what section of that article might address my particular issue?