How to Finalize PDFs to correspond to American Disabilities Act (ADA) Tagging: The Basics

This document is a basic step-by-step outline for tagging a PDF file in accordance with the American Disabilities Act (ADA). ADA tagging allows a digital document to work well with screen readers in order to assist those with visual impairments to more fully engage with a document's content. This is not a comprehensive guide, as it will not cover forms or complex tables. This specific workflow shows how to use Adobe Acrobat Pro to work with, finalize, and verify accessibility in PDFs created from simple Word documents. Such documents should already use Word heading and list features and very simple tables.