Alt Text Not Appearing in PDF

Question

Hello! So my team and I have been adding alt text to images in PhotoShop and then using Object Export Options with “From XMP: Alt Text (Accessibility)” selected for the Alt Text Source. In InDesign, this works great. We can see the alt text. But it does not seem to transfer to PDF when exported. We have triple checked that the “Create Tagged PDF” option is selected when exporting to PDF. What are we doing wrong?

Joel Cherney · Answer

How do you know it’s not transferring into your PDF? Are you looking at the “Alternate Text for Images” field in the Object Properties in the Accessibiliy Tags pane in the PDF in Acrobat?

If there’s no tag there for your image, then I’d wonder what was in the “Tagged PDF” tab of your Object Export Options dialog in InDesign.

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