Accessible PDFs

Images, which are not used only as decorative element, are mostly presented with an additional text, the caption. In a documentation Adobe describes how this combinations of image and text could be made accessible.

Bild- Textkombination / Image and caption

All content of this element, including also the text, should be integrated in the tag for images (figure). This figure-Tag contains the image (as object) and at least one text element. In this case the text element is a caption.

There are a few special cases in the shown example:

• The caption is bilingual: strictly speaking the german and the english text should be integrated in two seperate caption-tags
• A figure legend is integrated in the caption. This one should also be integrated in a single caption-tag
• Attention: If german is set as main language for the document, the tags with english content has to be marked with the corresponding language
• The hyperlink burningwell.org has to be tagged as link

Please note that these descriptions are to be seen as proposal, based on references from the documentation from Adobe. I´m sure there are many different ways to tag a combination of image and text valid in a different way.