InDesign 2026 Master Page Items Marked as Artifacts Still Trigger Accessibility Errors in PAC 2024/2026 (Especially Links)

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Still an issue in InDesign 2026Graphical elements on a masterpage labeled as aftefact are not checked in PAC 2024 and 2026.Solution in Adobe communityInDesign to Acrobat issues with links on master page | CommunityThey say, don’t place links on a masterpage but only in the document pages.This is strange. A link or a graphical element is a generic element for all the pages. When you have a document of about 100 pages, you should place 100 times a link on each page to get no failures in PAC 2026.I found two other posts in the InDesign community, but both are not the solution.They suggested: Override the masterpage itemshttps://community.adobe.com/questions-671/pdf-accessibility-master-page-items-artifact-by-default-how-to-change-901854?postid=3135202#post3135202Remediate in Adobe Acrobat Preflight is not a structure solution what should be done in InDesign and pdf export as a tagged pdf,https://community.adobe.com/questions-671/how-to-ensure-parent-page-items-are-properly-tagged-in-an-ada-pdf-in-indesign-890879?tid=890879&fid=671User voice InDesignArtifacting Master Page Items—accessibility – Adobe InDesign How can we solve this as a future solution? Let's discussEd BoonVisionEd.net

Frans v.d. Geest · Answer

Nothing to discus as far as I’m concerned, Parent Page items should be artefacted. The idea to place a link on a Parent page is a bad idea anyway for Accessibility, it will be repeated on many pages which is a very bad experience for users, it is not recommended. If you still do so, you have indeed the options you mentioned. But don’t.

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