Merge data into Acrobat form for 508 compliant output

[Danny Occoquan]

Acrobat Pro DC, Windows 10 ... I have an Acrobat Form that is Section 508/WCAG 2.0 compliant. When data are manually entered, the saved form remains compliant and the data are accessible under the structure tags.  It is being used as a template by another group to merge data on the fly from a web page for the user to download as a PDF, which needs to be compliant. The merge process appears not to look at scripts or calculations within the Form. The merged data in the output PDF are not structure tagged, so are inaccessible. Each field of merged data appears in the PDF Contents panel at the root as a Form XObject holding a containter named "Container <Tx>..." holding the data as text. Is there a way to change the form so the output is tagged, or is it something that has to happen in the process of generating the PDF?  Is an Acrobat Form even the best template to use to output accessible PDF download files?  Sorry long description, thanks much for any assistance!!

[Test Screen Name]

What is the technology/app/library used to fill the form "on the fly from a web page"? The chances are it does not do all the things necessary for complete form filling. Most apps/libraries just make sure the visible appearance is set, at best. You'd have to contact support for the server side technology to check.

[Danny Occoquan]

Thanks for your response!  I don't know, I may need to turn this over to our computing division if this isn't something I can fix on my end in Acrobat. It's an in-house system developed specifically for a certain project, developed without accessibility in mind. The 508 group I'm in was asked to create a compliant Acrobat form to use as a template for their system to merge data into. They had been using a LiveCycle template before. The template itself failed compliance, hence their need to switch. Now compliant template, but the output merged data are not inserted into tags correctly. Would be nice if it's possible to fix this by changing something in the form, but I've reached the limit of my expertise, I'm not a programmer.