Links in PDF not reading in screen reader

Report · Jan 03, 2020

Hello,

I am working on a PDF to make it accessible but I've come up against an issue I've never had before and I'm hoping someone can help. A flyer was created in InDesign using the tools to make it accessible but when it is converted to PDF for some reason the links don't read for a screen reader. I can see them and access them by mouse click but they are invisible to the screen reader. Any ideas?

Lauren

Report · Jan 03, 2020

You may want to visit the Tags panel to see if the link is actually tagged as a link. If you've never been down the tagging path, fasten your seatbelt... but it's not too rough. If it is mistagged, you can right-click on the tag, Properties, and change it to a link tag with the dropdown.

My best,

Dave

Report · Jan 11, 2020

Hi Dave,

Thank you for the idea. I checked and it was indeed tagged as a link. I'm just stumped. I ended up clearing all of the tags and starting from scratch. I got it done but I still don't know why the links weren't picked up properly from the InDesign document.

Best,

Lauren