I'm working on a booklet that contains 15 chapters. All were made in indesign. I made a pdf for each individual chapter and made those pdfs accessible. They passed the Acrobat full accessibility check.
I needed a master TOC, so I duplicated all the indesign docs (so the original pagination wouldn't be compromised just in case booking them did something weird), combined them into a book, made a separate doc for the TOC, put that in the book, and generated a TOC with links. Note that when I exported the TOC to a pdf, I did not include links or bookmarks. I'll tell you why in a sec.
I then went to Acrobat and merged all the accessible pdfs into one pdf. I can't remember if I used File>Create PDF>Merge files into a single PDF or File>Combine>Merge files into a single PDF. (Does it make a difference?)
The reason I didn't include links or bookmarks in the master TOC was because I knew I'd be combining pdfs that were already created; thus I knew that I'd have to manually link TOC line items. I only write this to give you as much info as possible.
So I went through the combined pdf, made sure the tags were correct (although I haven't yet tagged the master PDF yet), and ran the full accessibility check. It noted that none of the content of the master TOC is accessible. That was expected. What wasn't expected was the following warning: "An incorrect structure was found in the PDF file." But there weren't any hints as to how to fix it.
Does anyone have an idea what might have caused the warning? Should I heed the warning? Does it affect accessibility? As always, your answers are much appreciated.
Thanks,
Aviv
I thought perhaps my first question was too long for people to actually read through it. Here's a shortened version:
Does anyone know what it means when the full accessibility check results in this: "An incorrect structure was found in the PDF file."
It gives no further direction.
Everything is properly tagged, to my knowledge. If you need some background, read the previous post in this thread.
Any answers would be much appreciated. I'm on deadline now and I'm starting to get very nervous that I may have to re-accessibilize a 230 page document.
Thanks!
Aviv