0 Replies Latest reply: May 9, 2011 1:35 PM by cortshayes RSS

    Accessible PDF help!

    cortshayes Community Member

      Hi, I have a grocery list of problems to sort out with

      creating accessible PDFs in InDesign and exporting to Acrobat. I've taken a course to learn how to do this and I was confident leaving the course but after using these features in the real world I am lost and confused! As I said...grocery list:

       

      1. After I've created all my tags and set my reading order in InDesign, why does Acrobat throw that away and make it's own?

      2. Is there any way to get more H tags in Acrobat? In InDesign there are 6 head tags, in Acrobat there's 3. This gets really frustrating when all your tags are messed up in the PDF and you have to highlight and redo them.

      3. When you redo your tags in Acrobat, it blends together tags that are the same (ie. if you make your body text and caption both "Text tags" it blends them into one tag if they are close together). Because of this all my captions are now H3 tags...same as my subheads.

      4. I can click on a tag and it will highlight the content, but why can't I click on the content to highlight the tag? Would be helpful since the tag names are all generic.

      5. None of my hyperlinks carry over to Acrobat. Usually they do, but not when creating an accessible pdf (I know you have to select that in the InDesign pdf dialog box...still doesn't work)

      6. How do you get the screen reader to pause?! Even though I've tagged all my headings, body text, photos, captions and so on correctly, it still reads the whole document like one long sentence.

       

      Is anyone else finding this accessible pdf thing a nightmare? Thank you in advance for help!!