"Page Properties" grayed out in Acrobat Professional XI

I create PDF fact sheets and newsletters from Adobe InDesign CS 6. I am using Acrobat Professional XI. I am tasked with making these PDFs accessible to assistive reading technology.
I carefully set up tags and reading order in InDesign, but in order to import that structure into the PDF, I need to access Page Properties in the Options menu of Page Thumbnails. But Page Properties is grayed out. It is not accessible to me.
I checked to be sure the Acrobat Accessibility plug-in is loaded. It is not loaded.
Need to know how to
Enable Page Properties in Acrobat Pro 11.0.9
Load the Accessibility.api plug-in

Answer is to select all pages in the Pages thumbnail. Got it from an Adobe video on accessible PDFs from InDesign Preparing Accessible PDFs with Adobe InDesign CS5.5: Part II | Accessibility @ Adobe | Adobe TV

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>
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