Acrobat and accessibility...

[Herbiedriver1]

I am writing this as a plea to Adobe to add tools and functionality to Acrobat for help in remediating accessibility issues in PDF files.  Currently to meet WCAG2.2 using Acrobat takes double the time as it does in creating the files. God forbid I use Illustrator to create a simple flyer as Illustrator doesn't have a paragraphy style for H1, H2, H3, etc. (or at least I can't find it) to help with nesting order.  Not too mention that Illustrator to PDF sometimes creates text as a graphic element, not readable, so I have to create Alt text for most of the headlines, etc.

Currently remediating PDF's is like programming in Fortran. Something I intentionally got out of as I am a creative not a programmer. If you have a document with tables, forget it. Takes hours using Acrobat to properly nest, lable and fix. The interface is not intuitive, good luck finding the errors.  Nesting orders for the rest of the document can take hours if it's a multi-page document.

Can't Adobe create, or update the accessibility checker to help with remediation? It will be happy to dump you to the Adobe site for an explanation of what's screwed up, but offer no solution. 

Been working in this field for almost 40 years and this is a hell of a wrench that's being thrown at us. 

[Ulrich26223625vtcu]

Hello, 

Illustrator isn't meant to layout publications. The right tool from Adobe is InDesign, there are all the possibilities to create accessible PDFs. 

[Herbiedriver1]

Yeah, well been using this since pre-illustrator 88.  I create simple one off flyers in Illustrator rather than create a heading in illustrator, export a .eps file, jump to InDesign, place file, set type, create background in Illustrator, go back to InDesign, rinse and repeat.

And don't get me started on InDesign accessibility.  Charts and tables are terrible, nesting paragraph styles, images and hyperlinks are hit and miss as well... 
When time is money you use the most efficient tool.