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Acrobat PDFMaker for PowerPoint

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January 30, 2020
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Hello,

I am a regular user of the Adobe Acrobat PDFMaker for Powerpoint 2016 to create PDFs of presentations that are accessible to individuals with disabilities. Powerpoint slide titles are generally mapped to H1 tags in the tagged PDF output which is what is supposed to happen.

I am struggling with one particular template that does not map slide titles to H1. Instead they are mapped to <TextBox> and I can't see any reason for that. The slide titles in the slide master are all titles, and the titles appear in the Outline view of the presentation. I can't figure out what the template creator may have done to cause this. I haven't been able to replicate it either - every slide template I create has the slide titles exporting to H1 tags as expected.

Has there anyone who has had a similar problem or maybe might have some idea what else could be going on? This template was created by our Marketing and Communications Department and is being used by hundreds of people so I am desperate to find some fix.

Thanks in advance.

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Lisa229636276ozg

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Hi @Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com -- Thank you for your response! I agree with your sentiments. Very frustrating. Microsoft does have a feedback portal: https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/

I have documented feedback about this heading issue in both the Adobe and Microsoft feedback portals. Below are the links for voting, for you, @pthomas1, and anyone else who would like to boost the votes. Many thanks again for your responses in this thread. ~Lisa

PowerPoint titles converting to H2 in PDF: https://acrobat.uservoice.com/forums/590923-acrobat-for-windows-and-mac/suggestions/44800153-powerpoint-titles-converting-to-h2-in-pdf

Allow users to tag headings for hiearchy in PowerPoint: https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/8c4053a4-848e-ec11-a81b-000d3a058728

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Lisa229636276ozg

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Hi A11yAnalyst,

Did you ever find out why this was occurring? I hope you don't mind my piggy-backing on your post here, but seeing as you never got a response, I'm hoping to revive it.

I'm having a similar problem. Instead of converting to H1, all of my slide titles are converting to H2. At least the mistake is still a heading tag and not a generic text box tag, but Adobe Acrobat Pro is flagging this as a heading issue in accessibility checker, and I'm not sure if this is critical or not. If it is, manually fixing this will be a problem. This is a template and the resulting presentations become a handout for training webinar attendees. There are several trainers who use this template and aren't going to have time to go through each slide in their PDF's and change them all to H1 manually, so I'm trying to resolve it so that the titles convert correctly in the first place.

I didn't create this PowerPoint template originally, but the slide title placeholders appear to be applied correctly in the master layouts. I'm able to turn them on and off using the Title checkbox in the Master Layout ribbon, and "Title" displays for each one in reading order. Since PowerPoint doesn't recognize headings, I view this as an Adobe conversion issues, and as I understand it, Adobe is supposed to convert all slide titles to H1 by default.

I hope someone can chime in with some insights and resolutions, please! Thank you in advance!

Lisa

pthomas1

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Hi,

The best we were able to determine was that whoever created the broken template must have created it in Keynote and converted it to PowerPoint. That is the only way we were able to replicate the issue. Keynote to Powerpoint to PDF does not retain the slide title = H1 mapping.

As far as your slides all having H2 I would actually prefer that. If the title box on the title slide could map to H1 and every other slide title map to an H2 that to me would make more sense. Does your title slide at least retain the H1? Then in the PDF you're good to go. One H1 per document is generally best practice. Right now every slide title becomes an H1 ugh.

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Lisa229636276ozg

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Hi pthomas1,

Thank you for your response. I don't think we use Keynote in our company at all, but that's good to keep in mind.

The screen reader has been reading the titles from slide 2 on as H2, so I have assumed that the title slide must have H1. I discovered today, though, that the title slide is also H2. Maybe I can try to re-create at least the title slide and force at H1 there. Thank you for the tip.

Thanks,

Lisa

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