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Accessibility issue with Indesign created PDF

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2007-08-30 05:45:48
frankdaripa
Registered: Aug 8 2007
Posts: 4

Hi, I have a PDF that was created with Indesign 2.0. It is my job to review and edit the accessibility tagging in Acrobat (8.0 Pro). This particular document has many drop shadow effects on some the text and images. Trying to edit the tagging for this document is not working well at all with any of the advanced editing tools. Even if I use the touch reading order tool to tag the whole page as figure or figur/caption, so I can just add alternative text to just summarize this document, it changes allthe drop shadows to rectangles and changes the stacking order\ of the effects-basically ruining them. None of the tools are very helpful.
I am disappointed in the lack of communication between these two highly touted Abobe products. I use Indesign and was trying to get my boss to purchase it, but problems like this totally undermine my efforts and my own motivation.
Is there anything I'm missing here?
 
Thanks,
 
Frank

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8, Windows
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2007-09-10 09:47:30
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DuffJohnson
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Registered: May 30 2006
Posts: 96
In Adobe's defense, I would say that this is a complex situation, because there are oh-so-many things you can do with InDesign.

That said, you haven't missed much. You describe the effect of using Acrobat's tagging tools, but how is the text structured in InDesign? When you export from InDesign with tags, how do they look? I'd look at the tags coming out of InDesign before I started fooling with them in Acrobat...

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