Adobe Acrobat 2025 - Forms, Accessibility, tagging issues

Report · Aug 25, 2025

I am ready to pull my hair out. I was hoping 2025 would fix the painful issues with tagging a document. Here is my problem:

Word document (100% accessible) - converted to PDF.

Opended PDF in Adobe Pro 2025 and used the prepare a form tool.

Spent about 3 hours tweaking a few field names and the tool tips, manually adjusted the reading order and adding radio buttons as well as a few calculation formulas.

Ran the accessibility checker. Had issues with all of the radio buttons I added.

Went to the tagging pannel. Couldn't figure out how to get it to recognize the radio buttons.

Tried Automatically tag PDF. That wipped out the entire tagging structure, rebuilt it and now I have ooodles of tagging errors. Had oodles of document structure errors. Totally messed up the accessibility of my document.

Went to the Reading order pannel. Cleared the document structure and tried to manually assign the structure types. There are three seperate three row tables. I draged my mouse over one table to select it. Clicked Table on the Reading order pannel and it grabbed the entire page and decided it was a table.

Adobe Help is no help at all. I even, in desperation tried Copilot in hopes the AI had some ideas.

What gives?! I'm attaching the document.

Report · Aug 25, 2025

Hi Rachael27577112n9yo,

Thank you for reaching out, and sorry about the trouble caused.

Please ensure that you are using the steps as suggested in the following help document: https://adobe.ly/3HOH8Tu.

Could you please share the Word file you converted to PDF and the steps you took to add fields to the form? We will replicate this issue for further investigation. Also, please share the application and OS version used.

Thanks,

Meenakshi

Report · Aug 26, 2025

Yes, I followed the instructions in the KB The issue is the tagging utility as well as the taggin repair. If I use the Prepare form utility to initially create the fields, all of the fields should be tagged properly, which they were UNTIL I added the radio buttons which the wizard did wrong. The wizard assumed they were checkboxes. I deleted the check boxes and manually replaced them with the raido buttons. When I create radio buttons I expect the tool to automatically tag them in the same way as it does when I add a text box.

The reapir attempts cause more accessibility issues and never resolved the radio buttons.

The instructions provided also don't explain why when I attemp to assign a three row table a structure type of table, Adobe grabbs the entire page and assigns it as one big table.

The document in question was uploaded in my original post and is still there. I will share it again below.