Accessibility checker fails artifact as decorative image

[jhultqvist]

Hi! 

I have marked a few images in my document as "decorative" hence making them artifacts. When I run the accessibility checker it gives me errors for my artifacts: "Alternate text for other objects - fail".

What should I do? As I understand it an image/figure which is marked alternate text=decorative is automatically made into an artifact. And an artifact can't by design have a "real" alternate text. Right?

Regards,

Jesper

[Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com]

Quote: "As I understand it an image/figure which is marked alternate text=decorative is automatically made into an artifact."

Yes, it should automatically be artifacted. But there are several things that could have gone wrong. See below.

Quote: "And an artifact can't by design have a "real" alternate text. Right?"

Yes, that's correct. No Alt-text on artifacts. All artifacts should be hidden to all assistive technologies.

We need a few more details to diagnose what happened.

• At what point in the workflow are you designating something as decorative/artifact?
  • Are you doing this in Acrobat? If so, what version of Acrobat, on what platform, and with which Acrobat tool?
  • Are you doing this in the source program, such as MS Word? If so, what version & platform, and with which tool in that source program?
• What accessibility checker are you using? Acrobat's internal accessibility checker? Some other program?
• How was the PDF made and with which tool? For example:
  • Export from Word using Adobe's PDF Maker plug-in (the Acrobat Ribbon).
  • Save As / PDF using Microsoft's built-in PDF converter?

[jhultqvist]

Hi Bevi, 

Thanks for your reply!

Here are my answers to your questions:

1. Am doing this in Acrobat Pro DC (version .20067) on Mac Catalina 10.15.4.

2. I am doing this in the pdf-file. I think it was once converted to pdf from Word. I am not sure.

3. I am using the checker in Acrobat Pro.

4. Where in the workflow: As almost the last thing after autotagging and correcting the tags.

I hope this info helps.

Regards,

Jesper

[a_C_student]

Hi Jesper, I would try ...

Use the Reading Order tool, select the misbehaving content element, and "Tag as background/artifact".

Or, in the Content Pane, drag the content element out of whatever container it is in, if any, right-click it and "Create Artifact".

Hope this helps. If not, please post.