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Mike Witherell
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Oct 22, 2024 3:31 PM UTC
Question

InDesign 2025 support for PDF element accessibility tags

Hi gang,

Do you happen to know if InDesign 2025 supports certain PDF element tags?

Have they improved/added on the following tags?

  • Part 
  • Code 
  • Formula  
  • Annot 
  • BibEntry 
  • Quote 
  • BlockQuote

(If this question sounds familiar, yes, I have asked this question every couple of years.)

Last time I tested, the above tags were not directly supported in InDesign.

Has that improved with the release of the InDesign 2025 version?

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Frans v.d. Geest
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Sep 29, 2025 2:45 PM UTC

None of the above. InDesign has a few grouping tags, but not Part. The rest of the tags is not supported, but you can always Role map them to Paragraph styles in Acrobat ( but not to Character styles, so you can Role map to BlockQuote but not Quote...).

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Mike Witherell
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Sep 29, 2025 2:54 PM UTC

Hi Frans,

I'm glad you wrote about "you can always Role Map them" in Acrobat. I hate role-mapping tags that should already match in Acrobat PDF. What a continual waste of time. Year after year!

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Mike Witherell
Mike Witherell
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Sep 29, 2025 12:53 PM UTC

Hi gang, just bumping this list request for an acknowledgment of which tags are supported versus which tags are not. We should have a reference relative to PDF and EPUB and Publish Online, too.

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Mike Witherell
Mike Witherell
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Nov 14, 2024 12:44 PM UTC

Anyone?

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Mike Witherell
Abhishek Rao
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Nov 14, 2024 1:14 PM UTC

Hi @Mike Witherell,

 

Thanks for reaching out! I’m currently checking with the product team regarding the support for the PDF element tags you mentioned in InDesign 2025. I’ll be sure to provide you with an update as soon as I have more information.

Thanks for your patience!

 

Best,  
Abhishek Rao

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