Accessible Document Failed Accessibility Checker (Content Placed from Word)

Question

I have built a completely accessible publication using the same process I have used countless times. The only thing I have done differently is import content from Word. The content I imported from Word was completely accessible as well and I mapped the Heading styles I used there to the Paragraph styles used in InDesign. Every image is alt-tagged. Every decorative item is marked as an artifact. Every paragraph style is mapped to a PDF export tag with the appropriate heading level. All headings are used correctly and in the appropriate order. I have no tables.

The Acrobat accessibility checker is making all sorts of wild claims. It's failing all of my alt-tags. It is insisting I have tables and I don't. It's saying I have no tab structure and I do. It says my headings are nested inappropriately.

Is there some nonsense hiding somewhere in this document from Word that is causing this to fail? How do I remove it? This is due tonight and I have used this exact process over and over before without issue. The only thing I did differently was Place content from word directly into the InDesign file.

I rebuilt the entire document and it passes the accessibility checker without issue. I suspect these errors are due to having placed content from Word into my InDesign file (and possibly mapping styles from Word to those used in ID) but I would like to know why this exploded as it did.   Thanks!

Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com · Accepted Answer

The Acrobat accessibility checker is making all sorts of wild claims.
By @bren87

We'll need more details from you to figure out what's happening.

Can you post the report from Acrobat's Accessibilitiy Checker?
Which version of Acrobat are you using? (Give the build number)
Mac or PC?
Show us a screen capture of your tag tree that shows where it's correct so that we can correlate that with the checker's report.

--Bevi

bren87 · Answer

I have built a completely accessible publication using the same process I have used countless times. The only thing I have done differently is import content from Word. The content I imported from Word was completely accessible as well and I mapped the Heading styles I used there to the Paragraph styles used in InDesign. Every image is alt-tagged. Every decorative item is marked as an artifact. Every paragraph style is mapped to a PDF export tag with the appropriate heading level. All headings are used correctly and in the appropriate order. I have no tables.

The Acrobat accessibility checker is making all sorts of wild claims. It's failing all of my alt-tags. It is insisting I have tables and I don't. It's saying I have no tab structure and I do. It says my headings are nested inappropriately.

Is there some nonsense hiding somewhere in this document from Word that is causing this to fail? How do I remove it? This is due tonight and I have used this exact process over and over before without issue. The only thing I did differently was Place content from word directly into the InDesign file.

I rebuilt the entire document and it passes the accessibility checker without issue. I suspect these errors are due to having placed content from Word into my InDesign file (and possibly mapping styles from Word to those used in ID) but I would like to know why this exploded as it did.   Thanks!

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