Had no idea such a title existed. I work for said government and I am in charge of clearance. I think you are right. The answer would vary from person to person. If a completely automated solution is what is required that would read from beginning to end, then I think you would know that in the beginning and probably figure out a way to structure the slides so it gave the expected user experience. I get the logic. I think maybe you could hide the speakers notes behind a white box on the slide somewhere if you wanted to get creative with the solution. But, who wants to have to do that for each slide of a 60-slide presentation. Not me. -Dax ... View more

You are correct Dave. However, you can simply tag the unmarked annotation as a paragraph and it clears the error and still allows the content to be accessible. Simply go to the first page and open the tags tree dropdown menu and choose FIND > Unmarked Annotation. Then select entire document and tag them all as paragraphs. Just did a test and it worked well and cleared the error. -Dax ... View more

Just tested this in JAWS and works the same way. ... View more

An inline frame IS an anchored frame.. I am a moron. LOL. ... View more

Bob pretty sure that the OP is printing this for themselves and not trying to do in house imposition.Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S9, an AT&T 5G Evolution capable smartphone ... View more

As Bob's suggested if you are using these or this method as a way of imposing the pages later for print or print production, you definitely do not wanna do it this way. If you are doing this to simply create some kind of thumbnail proof or some kind of Mini version for review that saves paper, then this method is just fine. You just need to install  Microsoft office in order to get that print driver. But I'm sure there are some scripts somewhere around that will do the same thing if you hunt for them. -Dax ... View more

MS Office installs a "Print to PDF" driver. -Dax ... View more

What you can do is "Print to PDF" and select Thumbnails and 2x2. Just did a test and it works great. It does add page numbers and a dropshadow to the pages, but at least you get the 4-up you were looking for. -Dax ... View more

As long as all your pages are in the same InDesign document, this should be pretty straight forward. File > Export >Give your document a name > Save - Then this dialog box pops up. Make sure "All" is selected. and click okay. This will save all your pages into one document. Let us know if you are still having problems. -Dax ... View more

Can you please rephrase your question? I am having a hard time understanding what you are asking for. Just like the text in the column,  Inline frames are bound by the columns they are contained in. They cannot go outside the column guides. Hope that was helpful. -Dax ... View more

Hi Rachael, I ran a test with NVDA Version 2019.1.1 and it identifies the annotation without any problems. But depending on how I navigated slides, the user experience was different. You can use TAB to move from slide to slide or you can use the typical JAWS shortcut [ins+page down arrow]. Each method provided a different user experience. METHOD 1: When I use the JAWS keyboard shortcut [ins+page down arrow] to navigate from slide to slide it voices the following in this order: <H1> Sticky Note Comment <H2> <Slide Text> Using [ins+page down arrow] NVDA test of PDF with Annotations - YouTube The screen reader walked through all my content above and then I am able to access the sticky note using [tab] and then [enter] to pop it open and read the text [ins+down arrow] and then pressing [esc] to close it and move on. METHOD 2: When the user uses [TAB] to move from slide to slide NVDA reads the sticky note and the meta data associated with it first and then the slide content all the way through. I recorded a little video that shows exactly what is being read. NVDA using TAB - YouTube I can't test the JAWS experience at home, but I can run it at work. I am betting it will be a similar experience. NOTE: I did notice that the sticky note does not have a tag in the tags tree. Adding a tag lets you set alt-text, but unfortunately, adding a tag disabled the ability for the user to press tab to access the sticky note. [FYI - Adding the tag] You can open your tags tree and then from the tags dropdown you can select [Find>unmarked annotations] and Acrobat finds the notes and adds a Text-OBJR so it appears in the tags tree. Hope that sheds some light. It might be useful to ask your tester to write down the keys they are pressing to navigate the document so you can trace down what might be happening. Remember, everyone uses different methods of navigation. That is why the "Robust" principal of P.O.U.R. is so important. Great job being so diligent! -Dax ... View more

Hi Rachael, Your document is 247 pages. When documents are more than 50 pages, by default Acrobat will go into "Read the currently visible pages only" mode to conserve pre-loading time for JAWS. They need to change this option to "Read the entire document" to be able to jump headings across all pages in the document. You can access this menu through CTRL+SHIFT+5 (not numpad 5). -Dax ... View more

Did you start by generating the pdf by saving as interactive pdf rather that print to PDF? -Dax ... View more

Sue - I can completely understand why you might think that things might need to be nested as a child of the Hx tag, but hopefully this might help to provide extra clarity from a new perspective. I like to think of the tree like boxes. Everything goes inside the Document box. Then, if for organizational sanity, I want to have articles, sections or parts, I can put those inside the Document box. Let's say I decided I have a document and I decide to use sections to divide my content. Then inside the section I will have things like headings, paragraphs, figures lists forms and links all ordered neatly in the order I want them to be read and each containing the text I want them to read. I would never open the box for headings and put my form in it because it already if filled with the heading text. Nor would I put a heading INSIDE my paragraph. It would be "in front" of, or "on top" of the paragraph. When you can think of it that way, it makes a lot more logical sense. In addition to reading in a linear fashion, it is common for blind people to jump to specific content to navigate a document. With JAWS you can pull up the "list of lists" (ins+F3) and then pull up all sorts of things like the headings in a document. As a matter of fact, blind people use this so much that JAWS has build in default shortcuts for Headings lists (ins+F6), Form Lists (ins+F5), Link Lists (ins+F7). Tags are the structure in which non-sighted people navigate multi-part documents on a regular basis and that is why it is so key that we use the tag structure in a way that gives them the most flexibility in digesting what is on the page. Giving them multiple ways to access the content  answers the "Robust" in the P.O.U.R. principals of accessibility. Hopefully that helps in addition to Bevi's (always insightful) comments. -Dax ... View more

If you post some screenshots we can help with your table issue. -Dax ... View more

1. Virtually (just saying virtually to CYA - cause really it is nobody) No one who is blind uses read aloud. The results are highly unpredictable and it ignores the tag structure (which is what the entire PDF/UA and WCAG principals are based on). Features of a document like table structure, paragraph structure, heading levels, lists, alt-text and... and.. and.. (breathe...Dax....breathe) That would be like using a speak-and-spell versus an Iphone (google speak-and-spell if you don't know ). Anyone who thinks that Read Aloud is for Section 508 has NEVER watched someone who is blind actually read any document.  Bevi Chagnon | PubCom​ any stats to back this up? Myth #5:  A PDF is accessible if it can be read using Adobe’s Read Out Loud feature. FACT:  Adobe’s Read Out Loud feature is not considered assistive technology and cannot be used to verify compliance with Section 508 since it cannot represent the document’s logical structure (tags). Facts vs. Myths – Appligent Dax's steps for remediation (after I have setup all the right stuff in my InDesign document and exported a PDF) ==================================================================================== Step one - Fix obvious tag tree errors and organizational issues with tag order Step two - Fix table issues with header rows and columns Step three - Fix alt-text and set "actual text" for things that are just plainly voiced wrong Step four - Fix read order issues on Read Order Panel Step five - Fix Content order Issues if any occur from moving things around in the order panel (typically this is background elements getting pushed to the front) Step six - Walk tags tree again to ensure that things still read in the right order. Step seven  - Open JAWS (or NVDA) and ensure all headings, lists, figures and tables are navigable Step eight - Spot check listen to any irregular areas of the document to ensure the proper voicing of things like strange bullets, footnotes and other non-standard items. Step 9 - Add the 508_ to the beginning of the document name before I send it back so that wherever it goes, people know I passed it and it is remediated. (this is just our/my procedure) BTW.. a document is compliant when: It meets the "P.O.U.R." principals and complies with usability standards set forth in WCAG and PDF/UA guidelines. Sounds like your office needs some training on what it means to be compliant. We hired a company to come in and train on screen reader basics and remediating for office and ppt. It was a huge help in educating others on what it is that I actually do and what they can do to make the whole process easier. Hope that helps! -Dax ... View more

Have you tried putting a flood color on a layer underneath to check to see if the flower is truly transparent? -Dax ... View more

a C student Roko's Realm always makes me smile. I even have one of them printed here by my desk! I have to say that your videos have helped me troubleshoot Pac3 more times than I will admit to anyone. I have so many people asking me how to fix this or that and as the "subject matter expert" at your workplace who do I go to for answers? For me it is tagged PDF. BTW. that offer to buy you lunch is always good. I am just around the corner from you! -Dax ... View more

What you are describing below seems a bit more like decision-based navigation. If they did this.. then tab this way. If they did that...then tab another way. This is not possible in Acrobat. Please let us know if we are answering your question. -Dax maryiap69659905  wrote Bevi Chagnon, not exactly. It's more about accessibility after links and bookmarks. As i mentioned earlier, I want the tabbing order starts from the specific fields, but ONLY if links were opened. If the links are not opened, the tabbing order is usual: from top to the bottom, from left to the right. I know, it sounds a little bit complicated, but i hope i explained precisely. Thank you. ... View more

So are you changing your question. What is it specifically that you want and what are you getting now. -Dax ... View more

What would be a really cool option would be to be able to apply TOC page ranges based on Master Pages. I.E. anything with master page "Chapter 1" is tallied to produce "<Master Page Name>.......<page range>. That would be cool! -Dax ... View more

Right.. it might be blank for table border. But what about Row and Column strokes? -Dax ... View more

https://forums.adobe.com/people/JC+Montesquieu  wrote My issue is, Once the yes button is selected, (from 4 different products) I want the amount buttons below it to only apply to that product, which, right now, there's no clear way to do that. There's gotta be a way, considering that's kind of a basic function of forms Nope. It is not a basic function. Using logic trees to show and hide content based on selection is definitely beyond basic. Even in HTML forms you have to pay decent amounts for advanced forms that perform this kind of logical display. -Dax ... View more

Not that I am aware. You can RUN scripts, but any JS would be applied as form actions in a pdf. -Dax ... View more

I have your solution! It is a magic button! -Dax ... View more

La solución a tu problema. Buena suerte! How do you get rid of the pop up screen you your new adobe reader DC 2019 edition. -Dax ... View more