Requesting signature made my PDF inaccessible and can't be edited

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Hello!

I created a short attestation document and checked for accessibiliy, all was good. I used Adobe's signaure requester for someone to sign the document.

Now that I have it back, it's inluded a "final audit report" showing the history of the document. But this is reading as an image with no tags or anything so it's getting many flags from the accessibity checker.

However, since it's certified signed, it won't really let me make any edits. Is there anything I can do to fix this?

creative explorer · Answer

@victoria_7302 It's a common quirk with digitally signed documents that the audit trail, while important for security and verification, often gets appended as an untagged image, which unfortunately creates those accessibility flags. Since the document is certified signed, you're right, directly editing it to add tags would invalidate the signature, which isn't what we want.

You could try to alter the signed document itself, or you could consider creating a separate, accessible cover page or appendix document. This separate document could contain all the relevant information from the audit report in a fully tagged and accessible format. You could then provide both the signed document and your accessible cover page/appendix together. This way, you maintain the integrity of the signed attestation while still providing the necessary information in an accessible way for everyone who needs it.

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