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Create InDesign captions

Create InDesign captions

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Create InDesign captions

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- [Instructor] The caption tag in an accessible PDF document is used to identify captions for images, tables, and other elements to properly identify them in the tag structure. InDesign gives us the ability to define captions, but there are a few things to watch out for. Let's take a closer look. I'm going to scroll down in my document to page four, where I have an image of a woman working at one of the Two Trees plants. I'm just going to go in and zoom in so we can see this a little bit better. Now, if you look at the text here, and you open your, Paragraph Styles, I do have a style here called, Captions. Now we learned in a previous video about, mapping to the appropriate tag. Now that being said, if I edit this and I go to the export tagging, Caption is not an option. And between you and me, that's a limitation right now of Adobe InDesign, that it doesn't give us the ability to map it to a caption tag. Now…

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