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Inaccessible Links Acrobat 9

samo
Registered: Aug 19 2010
Posts: 1

Hello,

I'm having some issues converting an InDesign (cs3) tagged/structured document into an Accessible PDF. I have all my navigation buttons set to buttons and tagged, however when I create a 'tagged' PDF and run the Accessiblility Full Check Adobe PDF settings, the buttons are showing up as inaccessible links. I can go to the touch up tool and re-tag, but then I have to also re-order (do i?) but my document is 174 pages and there are 4 navigation buttons on each page which will mean a lot of re-ordering, and surely the point of tagging and structuring in InDesign is supposed to eliminate this problem?
Is there any way around this issue??

Thanks in advance...
Sam

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 9.0, Macintosh
daka630
Expert
Registered: Mar 1 2007
Posts: 1420
First - are all the Button field in the structure tree (look at the Tags panel) with a element for each? If not, you need to add them.Second - Work out of the Tags Panel when adding tags for form fields.
But, remember that there is no undo so save or save as often.
Work with practice copies until you are comfortable with the activity.

Third - where you have links, in PDF page content, that are not in the structure tree you must use the Select Tool to select the text over which the link is to be placed.
Then open the context menu and use "Create Link".
Any other method applied to a PDF fails to create a correct entry in the structure tree.
The consequence is a link that is not accessible.

Fourth - make the structure tree "whole" and read order follows.
Both Acrobat Full Check options and AT applications use the structure tree (Tags panel) not the Order panel content.
A well-formed structure tree results in harmonized read order - the converse is not true.

Currently, not an InD user - but, I've what Adobe's provided for InD/Accessibility.
I'll look it over and get back re: form fields (e.g., Buttons)

Be well...

Be well...