Accessible PDF and Article Panel in 2020: all scr***d up: BAD, BIG... bug! VERY URGENT

[Frans v.d. Geest]

When we use the Article Panel in InDesign 2019 and select Use for PDF reading order, the expected export to an Accessible PDF is as expected: the Tag-order is defined by the Article panel.

The same document exported from 2020 is a real bad mess!!!

All images (figures) are at the end of the tag-order!

Deslect use Article for PDF order sets the figures back in their place in the Story (Section) in the Tag-order. But as soon as yoy use the Article panel all figures again, end up in their own section at the end of the Tag order!

This is BAD!

See screenshots:

It is the Dutch version, but you can see the Article panel, a selected image and the place of that image ('Figure') in the Article panel.

The two screenshots below that show the Tag-order form 2019 (as expected) and the export from 2020 were all images (Figures) are at the end of the Tag-order.

Article PanelImage (figure in Article Panel)Export CC 2019Export 2020

[Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com]

Frans, are you anchoring the graphics within a threaded text flow, as well as using the Articles Panel?

Or are you keeping the graphics unanchored and the text frames unthreaded, and sequencing them in the Articles Panel?

[Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com]

Either method should produce a corrected logical reading order in the exported PDF, but the first method will have a cleaner, simpler Tag Tree.

[Willi Adelberger]

Why do you use so many text frames? Use one single one, link the images as anchored frames in InDesign.

[Frans v.d. Geest]

This is a info folder, many tag lines, web adresses, info, schedules, seperate stories. Not that clear on the screenshot ;-). Every page is tagged in is own Article. However, that has nothing to do with the described problem. In the meantime Adobe has aknowledged this bugs and are fixing it in a coming update.

[maxwithdax]

I was definitely able to repeat this. I have a 96 page test file that contains lots of threaded/anchored images as well as placed non-threaded images. The entire document read order is set by the articles panel. In the 2020 version I get 9 of the images thrown in at the end in a new <art> tag. While in the 2019 version it exports perfectly. Could not figure out why only some of the images were ending up at the end though. Happy to post my test file somewhere if any Adobe techs are interested. This is definitely a repeatable bug.

[mepainter]

Same thing happens to me. Seems to happen to grouped items, specifically images and text, used in-line.

[rohit_ID · Accepted solution]

Hi

The fix is now available in the latest Beta build of InDesign – InDesign 15.0.1.
Please download the latest beta build from Download section of InDesign Prerelease portal to test this.

1. Go to adobeprerelease.com
2. Log in with your Adobe Id.
3. Once logged in, search for “InDesign CC Prerelease” program in the list.
4. Click on the program to join the same.
5. You can download the latest available build (15.0.1.208) from “Builds and Plugins” section on the page.
6. The steps for installing the build can be found in the release notes.

—
Rohit

-Rohit

[Frans v.d. Geest]

So far it seems the Article order is back indeed.
This is a great relief!
But until 15.01 is officially released we still can not advice to upgrade to 2020 right now, so I hope this fix is made public very soon...