From the course: Creating Accessible PDFs

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Work with the Content pane

Work with the Content pane

- [Instructor] The Content pane is a very powerful tool in Adobe Acrobat, but in my experience, it's very underutilized. In this video, I'd like to show you a few powerful ways that the Content pane can come in handy when fixing issues in a PDF file. Now, I'm starting this video with the 04_11 document open. And one of the things that I wanted to draw your attention to is that if you navigate to page two of this document, you might notice that the blue bars, there's no text where those blue bars were, as we saw in previous documents. And this often happens to people when they're tagging content in Adobe Acrobat using the Reading Order tool. They will often come in here and they'll select an area of content and they'll tag it and all of a sudden their text disappears. And they're like, "Oh my gosh, what happened?" And they'll start all over again and think that they ruined their document. And the reality is what really happened is the stacking order of the objects in the document…

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