Tagged Lists: MS Word to PDF

Question

Ordered and unordered list "MS Word" formatted content is not properly tagged in auto tagged PDF using MS Word to PDF export. Bullet characters and letter/number prefixes are not independently tagged using "label" tag/element with the list item body tag.

I assumed this would be a standard tagged PDF output when one uses declared MS Word list styles to format lists in source MS Word documents.

Am I totally missing something here? If not part of auto tagging export, is this a feature that will be added eventually?

I always assumed tagging list type prefixes/markers was a requirement for PDF/UA, WCAG, Section 508 compliance. I may be incorrect here.

Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com · Answer

Hi @defaultbphyydhhkgks You're correct, the PDF/UA-1 standard does require that the bullet/number in an

list item be wrapped in the label tag. If you use Acrobat's PDF Maker plug-in to export the PDF from Word, it will not correctly tag lists with the tag. Don't know why Adobe has continued to create this tag error for many years because Adobe is a major player in the ISO Committee that creates the PDF/UA standard. They know better! So use a different method of exporting PDFs from Word and other Office products: use Microsoft's built-in PDF export utility that's described as method #3 in this blog https://www.pubcom.com/blog/tutorials/ms-office/export-pdf/index.shtml Microsoft's utility does correctly wrap the bullet/number in the tag. Hope this helps.

Sign up

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Sign in to Adobe Community

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Scanning file for viruses.

This file cannot be downloaded