Enable Advanced Tagging

[sfranco]

When I am converting from Word to PDF, all links in my document (including the TOC) have a very small text box with "32T" on each end of the link. This only happens when I have "enable advanced tagging" checked. However, when others have this feature checked, it does not generate these text boxes. I am having trouble figuring out why this is happening. Does anyone know what this is or why I can't replicate it on another computer? I noticed sometimes the text is constant and sometimes it increased in numerical order throughout the document.

[yn]

Any chance of posting a screenshot of the issue in its context?

So every link has "32T" at the end? Like a superscript? Maybe something going on with Footnotes from your Word Doc?

Others have taken similar steps to create the same PDF and it does not show for them? Or are you saying that viewing the SAME PDF that you have created is different if viewed on two different computers?

[sfranco]

Thank you. I've pasted what is looks like "normal" and then zoomed in so you can see the text. When in edit mode, these are actually tiny text boxes. I have no footnotes at all in the source document (Word). Yes, I have shared the Word doc with others and they converted it and did not get this (even with advanced tagging enabled). I would think we should be able to recreate this scenario but no luck. When they open my PDF, they see the text boxes just as I do; only different when they convert themselves. I have been dealing with document remediation for all of three months, so I am very new to it. However, I bring this to our consultant and he said he's never seen this before and couldn't explain either.

[Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com]

Have found the same thing from time to time over the past 5 years with this. It's a micro-number that looks like a dot of toner when the PDF is viewed at normal view. Sometimes it appears just on paragraphs tagged as headings, other times it's on every paragraph.

Definitely "Advanced tagging" can trigger it, but not always. We've documented some cases with the micro-numbers appearing WITHOUT advanced tagging checked during export.

And it comes and goes. Sometimes for a week, every PDF will have them, then without any changes to our documents or settings, they'll stop appearing.

Especially troublesome if you must make accessible tagged PDFs; the micro-numbers become part of the content that must then be artifacted out of the PDF to meet accessibility standards.

Have talked with several Adobe engineers over the years about this but have never had a satisfactory explanation of why they appear, why they then suddenly no longer appear, and how the heck to prevent the *&^%$!  numbers in the first place.

Hopefully we'll get an answer from Adobe here. I also encourage you to post this problem in UserVoice with your screen capture, www.Acrobat.UserVoice.com ​

But for now, UNcheck the box for Advanced Tagging when exporting a PDF from Word. It doesn't do anything for accessibility.

[sfranco]

That’s interesting and great to know I’m not alone! Thanks you for that information.

[hammer0909]

In my experience, the Enable Advanced Tagging button eludes to the idea that it will somehow make things better. It doesn’t. I avoid using it.