InDesign, Word etc? Is my only choice to open in Illustrator and correct there? Also is there a way to replace missing fonts within the PDF itself. Thanks a bunch! Spaghetts: It is very difficult to edit PDF files like that. In fact, it is generally difficult to edit PDF files at all! You might want to look at some of the PDF editing apps available, such as Pitstop. Accessible PDFs Any thoughts why exporting a tagged pdf using the interactive pdf option out of ID CS6 converts multi-line paragraphs into individual lines of text when viewed in the tags panel in Acrobat Pro X?
I compared that to a pdf exported from MS Word where multi-line paragraphs stay under a single para span tag. The only tedious option open — to tidy up the clutter of multiple span tags — is to manually drag these text lines under one tag and delete the superfluous ones.
Vic: That is strange. Hi David, thanks for the super-quick reply! I also noticed any custom changes to the paragraph such as a few colored words, drop caps or bolding also resulted in more span tags. Furthermore, Alt tag descriptions for images were hidden when hovering with the mouse in the exported PDF file. That one was solved by removing all effects transparency, multiply etc.
Even with all elements on the same layer that have been added to the reading order in the Articles panel, you notice strange things.
Until you arrange using Send to Back in the reverse order of the Articles panel, that is! I am having the same problem. Every time I export my tagged InDesign document, paragraphs are split into individual lines.
The reader only reads one line and you have to move to the next line. I have tried many different settings: interactive, print, hyperlinks on and off…. Please help I have a page document to format for accessibility! That sounds very frustrating! I would definitely recommend looking at this title by Chad Chelius at lynda. He goes over a lot of issues.
You can also find Chad at incopysecrets. Having the same problem as Vic and Jason. My paragraphs are not only being split into many paragraphs and many span tags , but also, hyphens and some individual characters are also being kept on a separate span tag, whereas I would like to keep a whole paragraph inside a single span tag.
Have you guys found a solution? Spans, Articles, Sections and so on, have no effect on the screen reader either. I know this is an old post of yours but I wanted to clarify 1 thing. There is no consistency. This is my experience anyway.
To my knowledge this condition alone does not violate any accessibility requirements and reads fine using Jaws screen reader.
What screen reader are you using? And are the all the lines within one Tag in the tags panel or are they in separate tags? I have not tested other screen readers. However, as far as I know you can put as many separate lines inside a Tag as you want as long as they all belong to the paragraph, heading or whatever single element you see them in on the screen. A screen reader should be able to follow and read the content as shown in the Tags panel. Is there a way to export all of the same tag in one go.
Not the entire document just one tag. Hope this makes sense! I hope one of you can help. We have instructions to direct a user to a menu in Word, for example. The greater than symbol is actually an arrow from Wingdings 3.
I have tested an Illustrator graphic with all text applied and it works great, and if it were only a few arrows, it would be great. This is a manual process unfortunately. There is no way to achieve via InDesign at this time.
I called Adobe to carpet on this just last week tho! Try using a a standard Windows font whenever possible for icons. For some icons you may have a problem creating a truly accessible document in Word. Since upgrading to the cloud, my indesign documents that have placed pages from other documents, no longer recognizes the text in the pages when I run reader accessibility in acrobat DC.
Never had an issue with CS6. Any ideas? Turning on the created tagged PDF feature, without considering the requirements of accessibility, gives quite a bit of false hope to document authors and, I would argue, creates a confusing experience for non-sighted users. When a non-sighted user, the primary audience of document tagging, encounters an untagged document they have expectations about the document and employ strategies to overcome issues they expect to find.
Acrobat ships with a number of features out of the box to help screen reader users consume PDFs. Conversely, if they encounter a document that has been tagged, they would expect that the document is accessible to standards. When a tagged PDF is encountered by a non-sighted user who relies on a screen reader, they are most likely expecting that you designed the document to conform to established technical standards such as WCAG 2. If it still can't fix the issue, I would request you to provide us a file so that we can help you with more accurate information.
These apply to your document:. They require a human with knowledge of accessibility standards to determine if the file is fully accessible. In your design, even with the footer artifacted, the hyperlink will be caught by some assistive technologies and be voiced on each page over and over, possibly in the middle of a sentence as text flows from one page to the next. In my InDesign classes, I call this a Catch trap : If you leave a live hyperlink but it doesn't have the OBJR sub-tag, then it fails most accessibility checkers.
The best solution is to design a document that avoids and prevents the problem from the beginning. And that's why we're called "designers"!
In this document we have main navigation at footer, with links to different sections so they are hyperlinks that refers to certain pages in the document.
And it is located in the master page at InDesign document. At least me and my clients find this navigation very useful and user-friendly in this large pdf documetn. But at the Acrobat accessibility full check I get elements showing failure in tagged annotations Is this a lost case or is there any solutions for this kind of problem? It would break my heart to remove the menu from master page and put it on the or so pages PaulaVenalainen , headers and footers are deliberately not read by assistive technologies for significant reasons: they 1 are repetitive information, which is not allowed per our accessibility standards, and 2 they can break up the reading order when main content flows from one page to the next: where would you have the footer come into the reading order?
In mid-sentence? Therefore, accessibility standards require all footers and headers be artifacted except for maybe the first instance. Assistive technologies give their users a way to announce what page they are on. Your design doesn't coordinate with this accessibility requirement.
As described above, when a hyperlink is artifacted so that it doesn't repeat for assistive technologies , it becomes an annotation error. If your PDF has bookmarks which it should because it's longer than 10 pages , wouldn't that give users the same functionality as a complex navigation system in the footer?
Base the bookmarks on the different levels of headings and they can have nested sub-sections. I will suggest that we should make an own version of this document for the assistive technologies.
And of course I have a TOC too. Actually we have 4 pages of bookmarked TOCs here, located at the the start of every section that footer navigation goes to these TOC pages so user can navigate forward from there. Improve this answer. Thank you for the answer. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. The Overflow Blog. Podcast Making Agile work for data science.
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