PDF Accessibility: How to add a stamp and still be accessible

[E378578196da5]

Hello community, 

I'm hoping you can help me. I have a fully accessible PDF, but I need to add a custom stamp. I can't find a way to make a stamp part of the accessible tags. The stamp shows up as an annotation and I can't figure out how to make it a <p> tag. 

The document is part of an archived group of materials and if someone comes across the PDF in a google search rather than from our website, they need the context that the stamp provides to understand that it's archived. 

Thank you for your consideration!

[Tariq Ahmad]

Hi @E378578196da5,

Thanks for reaching out with your questions, and sorry for the delayed response.

By default, stamps in Acrobat are considered annotations and are not included in the document’s tag tree, which makes them invisible to assistive technologies like screen readers.

You may consider the following:

- If the stamp does not need to remain interactive, the approach is to flatten it and add it to the tag tree.

- If flattening is not an option and the stamp must remain an annotation:

1. Go to Tags Panel (View > Show/Hide > Navigation Panels > Tags).

2. Find the nearest paragraph tag () where the stamp should be read.

3. Manually add a new  tag:

• Right-click an existing tag > New Tag > Select Paragraph ().
• Right-click the new tag > Properties > Add contextual description for the stamp.

4. In the Content Panel, manually associate the annotation with the new tag by dragging it under the correct structure.

Let us know how it works at your end

~Tariq