Making PDF 508 Compliant using IText

[satya devarapalli]

Hello,

I am using IText 5.1.3 to generate PDFs. Now I have this challenge of making the PDF 508 compliant. For this I need to set the document structure so that the screen readers can read the document.

The pdf on a high level is split into tables, a header, body table (has nested tables inside), footer table. After reading Itext in action, i figured out until this point.

                PdfWriter docWriter = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, bos);
		docWriter.setTagged();
			
		document.open();
		PdfStructureTreeRoot root = docWriter.getStructureTreeRoot();
		PdfStructureElement e = new PdfStructureElement(root, PdfName.TABLE);		
		document.open();

I am not sure how to assign my header or body table to this PdfStructureElement. Let me know if there is a better way to do it.

Thanks!