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Katie Kelly Designs
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April 7, 2025
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Accessible Pdfs - every line in paragraph being tagged individually

  • April 7, 2025
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This never used to happen, but recently when exporting to PDF from InDesign, each line of a paragraph is being tagged (as opposed to the whole paragraph). I haven't been doing anything differently so I wonder if InDesign changed something? I work on a P.C. (not Mac)

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Thank you! I found it, but in mine the option is "display like elements in a single box" so I clicked that and it worked. I was worried it would mess things up for accessibility having each line as it's own. Thank you so much for the help! 

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marct14230458
marct14230458
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July 19, 2025

I had the exact same thing, my paragraphs, which are tagged as a P tag in the paragraph style, which is correct, but then I wondered why the heck my paragraphs were all separated into individual lines. So all I did was make a new document, just make a sentence using "Lorem ipsum" fill.

Then made a new paragraph style to match the one I was using and again added the P tag to the stylesheet. I then made a new pdf from that file to check that the P tag has made it all-in-one, low and behold, it did work.

 

I then copied that new style sheet, making sure its not the same name and just pasted it into my problem InDesign file. I then deleted the OLD stylesheet and replaced with the new one and IT WORKED.

 

Something in my InDesign file was making it do that. I even went and checked every single setting in that paragraph style, and there were no differences.

 

On a weird note, I even duplicated the paragraph style and made that into a h1 in and that broke up into individual lines. All I did was change the paragraph style to a h1 and nothing else.

 

Try this first on a duplicate InDesign doc - let us all know how it went for you.

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jorge-fenix
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July 30, 2025

Please, be more specific about what did work: do you mean Acrobat's Tag Panel (not Content Panel nor Order Panel) now shows one single sibling descending from each P? If so, please, share a minimal document that produces that.

Robert at ID-Tasker
Robert at ID-Tasker
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April 7, 2025

Which version of InDesign exactly? 

 

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Katie Kelly Designs작성자
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April 7, 2025

The most up to date version (I have the CC subscription)

Dave Creamer of IDEAS
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Dave Creamer of IDEASCommunity Expert
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April 7, 2025

Thank you Robert, I got it solved. Frans suggested clicking the "display like elements in a single box" and that did the trick.


If you have to create accessible PDFs often, you might want to check out this book:

https://www.pubcom.com/books/bevi_508-indesign/508indesign.shtml

 

 

David Creamer: Community Expert (ACI and ACE 1995-2023)
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    Katie Kelly Designs작성자
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    April 7, 2025

    Here is a screenshot...

     

    Frans v.d. Geest
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    Frans v.d. GeestCommunity Expert
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    April 7, 2025

    That is the order panel, show the Tags panel. (Even then, it does not matter for how it is read by the way). Use styles and no 'soft returns' or local formatting as a rule. But for accessibility it does not really matter if you see several containers inside the P-tag in the tags panel. For the order panel (the one you are showing) set the preference in the Order panel pane to 'show simular as block', this will show less lines.

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      Katie Kelly Designs작성자답변
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      April 7, 2025

      Thank you! I found it, but in mine the option is "display like elements in a single box" so I clicked that and it worked. I was worried it would mess things up for accessibility having each line as it's own. Thank you so much for the help! 

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