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InDesign PDF "Tagged annotations failed"

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May 1, 2019
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Hello! I'm working on a multi-page accessible PDF document in InDesign and when I run the Accessibility check in Acrobat DC I get the following error on a hyperlink.

"Tagged annotations failed."

There is no option to fix this in Acrobat DC and I don't really know what this means, despite searching on forums and the web.

I cannot figure this out, and I'm new to Accessibility. The confounding part is that I have multiple hyperlinks in this document, all set up the xact same way as far as I can tell, and they do not generate this error. Only this one.

The hyperlinks are phrases with a link to a URL. They are not part of a TOC or a footer, which are the other cases for this error I could find on this forum. I'd appreciate any insight anyone can offer. Thank you!

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Frans v.d. Geest

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You could start here:

Creating Accessible PDFs Course | LinkedIn Learning | Lynda.com

Frans v.d. Geest

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Tools, Print Production, Preflight:

tami jt17830887Author

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Thank you! I will try this today and let you know if this solved my error. There seems to be a lot of moving parts and a fair amount of confusion around accessibility! Am I right? None of the guidelines I've read mention the Objects palette and the Articles panel, but like I said, I'm new.

tami jt17830887Author

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Thank you! I tried the fix mentioned by Franz and got this message. Basically, no errors were found so nothing was fixed. Can you possibly point me to a tutorial where I could read about the details I'm missing with regard to InDesign? You said there's A LOT more to it, or maybe something about editing the tags as you mention in your reply? I have scoured the web for InDesign and Accessibility help and the solutions out there seem inconsistent ore more basic than what I need. Thank you!

Mike Witherell

Community Expert

And did you use the Articles panel in InDesign? And in the Article panel menu button, did you switch on "Use for Reading Order in Tagged PDF" ?

Mike Witherell

Frans v.d. Geest

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The Article panel only determines what gets tagged in what order (still not the reading order!) this has nothing to do with the hyperlinks annotation problem mentioned...

Willi Adelberger

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I suppose you created the PDF from InDesign, because we are in the InDesign forum.

How did you make your paragraph styles, how is your tagging done there? Also with Character Styles and Object style?

Did you make alternative text for images?

tami jt17830887Author

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Thanks you so far Will and Michael.

Yes, I'm using InDesign. I'm not using Character styles, though I have used them in the past. I'm not familiar with Object styles.

I am using Paragraph styles and the hyperlinks are tagged as <p> along with the rest of the body copy.

I do have alt-text for images.

I saved as an interactive PDF and have checked the following:

Check “Create Tagged PDF”
Check “Use Structure for Tab Order”

Frans v.d. Geest

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There is a LOT more to it than that alone, that said: there is a single fix action in Acrobat Pro under Print production, Preflight that fixes this (search for Hyperlinks while in the single fix section, make sure you have Acrobat 2015 actions visible, this single fix fixes missing annotations for hyperlinks. It is a ‘dirty’ fix as you are really supposed to find them in your PDF in the tags, then select the code, right click and edit the attributes giving the link a ‘description’, but the fix means you can get away with it)

Mike Witherell

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What settings did you choose when you made the PDF?

Mike Witherell

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