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Shaji25230243251z
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August 10, 2023
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InDesign Accessibility PDF shows "Tagged Annotation Failed"

  • August 10, 2023
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All,

We have completed accessibility PDF process from InDesign using Article panel.

But we end-up with Tagged Annotation Failed in 2 or 3 places. Same scripting process is used to create 200's of URL and Cross-references links. Why its showing error in 2 or 3 places, rest of the hyperlinks and cross-references are fine.

For testing process we have deleted the error content and created PDF again, but now it shows other place.

Not able to find the root cause, we have checked forum but everyone is depending on acrobat to fix it.

Note: While creating URL we have switch-off "Shared Hyperlink Destination" still the issue not resolved. (also we are in XML-IN workflow)

Can anyone having any idea about what will be the root cause, any method need to change while creating URL/Cross-Referene link, so that we can check related to that.

Shaji

 

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    Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com
    Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com
    Legend
    August 10, 2023

    Do you have any hyperlinks on the Parent Pages?

     

    Which program is giving the failure/error — Acrobat's checker, Acrobat's Preflight, or a 3rd party checker such as PAC?

     

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    Shaji25230243251zAuthor
    Inspiring
    August 11, 2023

    Thank you for your response.

    We are using Acrobat to check Accessibility PDF basic points issues.

    Attached herewith screenshot. Seems this bugs still not rectified by Adobe more over this is untraceable by us, since the whole process run in backgroud, here is my inputs let me know if there is any way to resolve this issue, we are not looking to solve the issue in acrobat, need to resolve it in InDesign itself, so that 100% accessibility export will happen no need to check in acrobat including reading order etc. we have added all the possibility in scripts, which we have tested in 100's of files from direct export to indesign. Only this one cause issue for us. We are in journal environment with XML-IN workflow.

    1. Acrobat_1.png (interesting part is all articles only last reference have this issue)

    2. InDesign_1.png (XML structure view, i have marked the issue "year" is cross-references and "doi" is URL link)

    3. Acrobat_2.png (One more interesting part we have come across. For testing purpose deleted last reference which have issue but still it shows last refernce having "Tagged annotation failed" but this reference was valid before. You can cross check Acrobat_1.png for the reference)

    Thanks

    Shaji

    Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com
    Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com
    Legend
    August 11, 2023

    Unfortunately, I can't help you with this problem.

    You're using an XML workflow with InDesign's XML tools and that combo doesn't make the most accessible PDF.

     

    Adobe has done little to improve XML in InDesign for about 20 years; one reason why  my shop got out of creating XML-driven publications. And Adobe has done minimal work on accessible tagged PDF from either a traditional InDesign layout or an XML layout.

     

    You will have to get in touch with an Adobe engineer (not the forum staff that monitors this forum) and ask specifically how the PDF export utility interprets the XML tagged content into an interactive PDF that is compliant with the PDF/UA-1 standard.

     

    You have a very complex XML structure in the sample you supplied and this tells me that you're maxing out Adobe's software. And failed Tagged Annotations is becoming very common from Adobe's software. It may also be the checker you are using to check for accessibility compliance: none of them are 100% accurate.

     

    Can you be more specific about the wording of the failed annotations, or a screen capture of the failed accessibility report?

     

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