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Artifacting elements

Artifacting elements

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Artifacting elements

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- [Instructor] Artifacting is a term used to describe elements in a document that you do not want to be read by assistive technology. Common elements that require artifacting are page headers and footers that appear at the top and bottom of every page, images that have no real meaning, and decorative elements that are strictly visual in nature and have no value. Artifacting objects streamlines the reading experience by only reading content that matters or has value. Let's dive into how to artifact objects in Adobe Acrobat. Now, before I go too far, I want to show you one of the features in Adobe Acrobat that I would recommend you do not use because it causes problems when you're artifacting content. And that method is found if you come over here to the All tools button, go to Prepare for Accessibility and then choose Fix reading order. Now, in the Reading Order pane, you have a lot of buttons in here that can be used when you're tagging content. And one of the buttons that you're…

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