Will the file pass PDF/UA after this?

The structure, language and title checks will pass. Two things may remain: fonts the PDF doesn’t embed (a few old or simple files use built-in fonts) and pictures without a description, which only a person can write well.

How do I add descriptions to pictures?

Pictures are tagged as figures, ready for alternative text. Adding it needs a PDF editor with an accessibility panel; Nopload tells you how many figures are waiting for one.

Tables are tagged as paragraphs for now, one per cell or row as the layout gives them, so they are read in order but without column headers. Documents built around tables are best made accessible in the program that created them.

My PDF is already tagged. What happens?

Its existing tags are kept as they are, since they were probably written by the program that made the file. Only the language, the title and the PDF/UA marks are set.

Does it change how the PDF looks?

No. Tags sit alongside the page content without changing it, so the pages print and display exactly as before.

Make PDF accessible

Tag a PDF for screen readers: headings, paragraphs, lists, language and title.

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1Add files
2Set up
3Download

Tip: You can also drop files anywhere on this page, or paste them.

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How to use Make PDF accessible

01Add one or more PDFs with real text, not scans.
02Optionally type a title and a language code such as en, hi or es; left blank, the title comes from the document and the language is detected from the text.
03Press Make accessible and download the tagged PDF. The result says how many pictures still need a description.

About Make PDF accessible

Make PDF accessible adds the structure that screen readers and other assistive technology rely on. Many PDFs are “untagged”: they look fine but are a jumble of text fragments to a blind reader, with no headings to jump between, lists read as one run-on sentence and decorative lines announced as graphics. Nopload reads the page layout and writes a tag tree to match it, with headings at their levels, paragraphs, list items, links and form fields, and marks borders, rules and background shapes as decoration to be skipped. It also records the document’s language and title and claims PDF/UA-1, the accessibility standard for PDF.

Why your files stay private

Documents made accessible are often official ones: forms, letters, coursework, public notices. The tagging runs in your browser, and the PDF is never uploaded to Nopload or anyone else.