MadeToTag

axaio MadeToTag is an Adobe InDesign plug-in to properly prepare InDesign documents for export as an accessible, tagged PDF file. The MadeToTag UI allows step-by-step guidance leading any customer safely and intuitively through the procedure of generating tagged PDF files, without missing any important step.

Tagged PDFs are essential for accessibility, so that screen reader devices for visually impaired people or reading software for users with learning disabilities can provide rich access to a PDF’s content. Tagged PDFs also enable screen reader software programs to offer easy navigation and accessible presentation of content in PDF files.

Fields of Application

Properly tagged PDF files have become very important for public administrations and enterprises. Legal requirements for physically impaired people and for accessibility in the information technology (such as described in the German BGG, BITV and EU mandate 376) impose that the public sector offers all content – webpages as well as PDF documents – in an accessible form. But also media service providers, representatives of associations and institutions as well as students and lecturers at colleges and unversities increasingly consider it their duty to have their written materials available as accessible documents. Nothing simpler than that with MadeToTag.

On top of that, PDF tags are an effective method to improve your company’s Search Engine Optimization. The tags in the PDF file follow concepts similar to those found in HTML. Properly used tags place websites higher in the search engine rankings.

• Supports Adobe InDesign CS5.5, CS6, CC, CC2014 and CC2015
• For MS Windows XP Pro/Vista/7/8/10 and Mac OS X
• The product is available in English and German

• Define export tags for document styles
• Structure content using articles
• Check export tags with colored preview
• Correctly structure lists, tables, links and form fields
• Use Structure Preview to intuitively and quickly check tagging quality
• Provide alternate text for image and graphic descriptions
• Check for insufficient color contrast
• Easily fix common problems (such as incorrectly defined lists)
• Control of language settings for paragraph, character styles and local formatings
• Control document metadata
• Optimization of 'anchored frames' for export of tagged PDFs
• Export of complete InDesign books as tagged PDF
• Reliable and intuitive user interface flow
• Keyboard shortcuts for quickest operation
• Export optimized tagged PDF using callas pdfToolbox technology

Benefits

• Easily generates tagged PDF
• Accessible document in only seven steps
• Reliable and comprehensive structuring and tagging of different content
• Color highlighting feature prevents missing or mis-tagged content
• Tagging structure preview for better control
• Optimized user interface enables fast processing
• Optimal support for legal requirements for physically impaired people and for accessibility in the information technology (such as described in the German BGG, BITV and EU mandate 376)
• Extends the power of Adobe InDesign CS5.5 and higher
• Improves your company’s Search Engine Optimization

axaio MadeToTag is an Adobe InDesign CS5.5, CS6 and CC plug-in to properly prepare InDesign documents for export as accessible, tagged PDF file – easy, fast and reliable. The MadeToTag UI allows step-by-step guidance and this seven step guide leads any customer safely and intuitively through the procedure of generating tagged PDF files, without missing any important step.

Downloads

• axaio_MadeToTag_Manual_EN_092016
• axaio_MadeToTag_Brochure_EN_092016

Version history

Showing the 5 most recent of 11 releases.

1.9.090

Features/Enhancements

• Tabulator in dialog for alternate text overview selects next image
• Small redish line under active button in task 2

Bug fixes

• Fixed a bug in table tagging where smart headers have not been fully assigned
• Dialog for alternate text overview does not lose text when resizing
• Table headers are not merged when containing headings

1.9.091

Features/Enhancements

• New: show existing alternative texts for graphical elements in overview

Bug fixes

• Optimized language detection when exporting books
• Improved status update for task 5 (languages)
• Fixed problem in table tagging feature processing
• Optimization of anchored frames led to missing table header; fixed

1.9.093

Features:

• New export tags: Caption, BlockQuote, Index

Bug fixes:

• Paragraph styles in groups are recognized better
• Form field template dropdown updates regularly
• Text without paragraph style is also found in table cells
• Improved status update for tasl 1 (export tags)
• Multiple fixes for better reliability

1.9.095

Bug fixes:

• Irregular placement of list captions; fixed
• Order in BlockQuotes was wrong; fixed
• Applying fixups for table headings/footers failed when containing a cross reference; fixed
• Enabling and disabling table cell highlighting takes too long; fixed
• Working in table smart headers mode crashing InDesign; fixed

v1.9.101

General:

• Release MadeToTag for Adobe InDesign 2021

Bug fixes:

• Fixed a bug where captions where placed at wrong position in tag tree
• Fixed a bug where Umlauts are not properly displayed
• Fixed a bug where “link footnotes” returns an error even on success
• Fixed a bug where creating a PDF/A-2a fails
• Fixed “Alternate text missing for Formula structure element” error when working with MathML
• Fixed a bug where the post processing of the PDF failed randomly
• Fixed a bug where “object is locked” was displayed when using optimization of anchored frames