Perhaps there's a difference, to InDesign, between a "rule" and a "path". By @karin.carlson A path is a vector element. Could be a border, shading inside a frame, underline, rule, the dot leader in a TOC, or a graphic from Illustrator.   Rather than draw these elements as independent graphic paths, set them in your Paragraph and Character styles instead because this "renders" a faux underline or border that is artifacted, rather than creating a computer graphic object in the file. They'll look the same, but how they are coded is what makes the difference.   Use these settings in your styles: Borders Shading Rules Above/Below Underline (in the text portion)   Study the techniques documented above by our colleagues. And use styles, styles, styles, and more styles to end up with the best, most accessible files.   ... View more

Since this is a volunteer user-to-user help forum, it makes no difference to us what software you use. Your comment will fall on deaf ears.   But did you try the suggestions listed above?   If it didn't work, can you describe the steps you're taking to make the PDFs from Word? What version of MS Office are you using? What version of Adobe Acrobat are you using? (Note that Acrobat installs the PDF Maker Acrobat Ribbon in Word that is used to export PDFs.)   Your answers will help us help you out.   ... View more

We often see those ghost annotations floating on pages in these situations: the Shared Hyperlink Destination is checked in InDesign's URL dialogue. We keep that little PITA UNchecked for each hyperlink in the Hyperlinks panel. When items that are artifacted (or on the parent/master page, which artifacts the items) but still have a hyperlink on them.   Our solutions: Remove the hyperlink on the ones where Shared Hyperlink Destination was checked, save the INDD file with a new name (File / Save As rather than just Save) to rebuild the file and remove residual code crud, and the recreate the hyperlinks with shared destination UNchecked. Remove hyperlinks on all artifacted items (which includes those on Parent/Master pages). Hope this helps!   ... View more

Thanks for the nudge to file a complaint. I did that under the OS section of the Apple webpage.   ... View more

I've had to go in and remove tags that are associated with rows or columns that are repeated across pages.  Only then will it pass accessibility checker. By @Beverly337902905zx4   That doesn't make sense. Regularity Errors usually happen when the number of columns varies from row to row. This happens when cells inside the table (not header cells) are merged and proper scope and span settings aren't in those cells.   Can you post a screen capture of the table so we can see how it is constructed?   ... View more

Absolutely true! Showing 4 variations of the interface in my books is insane!   So I solved it, temporarily, by adding pages at the beginning that show the shortcomings of the new "Modern" interface and how to disable it. Also put in a link where my book readers can give feedback directly to Adobe. Let Adobe know: You can voice your opinion about the new interface at UserVoice: https://acrobat.uservoice.com/forums/590923-acrobat-for-windows-and-mac/suggestions/47082691-ditch-t...  Be sure to leave a comment about your opinion and experience with the new interface. They need to hear from us users.   FYI, UserVoice is Adobe's official website where it reads and takes into account suggestions and complaints from users of its various products.  On the other hand, this community forum is a user-to-user help forum and information posted here rarely reaches ears or eyes at Adobe.   ... View more

I too have discovered this problem during the past year. I'm combining multiple PDFs for bank statements and the Combine tool only puts in the first file's bookmark. And yes, it's erratic, too.   I'm logging it in the prerelease forum to notify the engineers.   ... View more

@Diane35072841f3vn and @Pat259057694j47, I've forwarded your post directly to the Acrobat engineering team to alert them to the problem. (FYI, this is a volunteer user-to-user community forum that the engineers usually don't monitor.)   In the meantime, please post here some details about your setup and software: The version of Windows you are using. The version of Acrobat you are using, whether it's Reader or Acrobat DC Pro, and its version number (File / Help / About Adobe Acrobat ...) The screen reader you are using and its version. The version of ZoomText you are using.   You also might try contacting Freedom Scientific / Vispero's tech support at https://support.freedomscientific.com/support   ... View more

Whether special characters like  § (section) and  ¶ (paragraph mark) are voiced depends mostly on the reader technology, not on Acrobat or any other software program.   What screen reader / text-to-speech reader are you using? Is it the Read Aloud utility built into Acrobat?  Or something else?   ... View more

Hi Katerina@katerina34959055pk60, Some bad news: please don't shoot the messengers! We're just unpaid volunteers here on the forum.   You didn't buy a QR code from https://qr.io,  Instead you subscribed to a package of services tied to a customized QR code.   So when you stopped paying the monthly $35 fee, your QR code stopped working. It appears that the company embedded custom code in your QR that tracks whether your subscription is paid, who clicked the QR and visited the website, and other user data.   The QR you printed on your promo materials will work only when your subscription to https://qr.io is paid. You can't redirect the QR to a different webpage unless you resubscribe to the company's service. You can't edit or alter the QR, either. You are stuck with it.   From what I read on the company's website, your options are: Renew your subscription to the company and keep using your existing QR and promotional materials. Throw out your existing promotional materials and recreate them with your own QR code, not something you purchase with a lot of strings attached. Create a new QR code (a basic one, not specialized), print it on labels/stickers from your desktop printer, and put the stickers on your promotional materials to hide the bad QR.   The company isn't a bad one. I think that you might not have understood how QR codes are made, how they work, and what this company offers. From what you wrote, I don't think you need their services. You just need a basic QR that embeds a website address so that prospective customers can click the QR and go visit your website. Did I get that right?   FYI, many software programs can create a QR code for any URL website address, and they can do that in seconds. Adobe InDesign is one program that can, but there are many more. There also are many websites that will do it for free, too -- without all the exxtra services you unintentionally subscribed to.   Let us know if you need any more help with this.   ... View more

Seconding @Abambo's comment. The second page of your PDF looks fine. The first looks like you redacted some of the info, and of course that won't be press-ready.   Is your version of Acrobat up-to-date? Did you try opening it on a different computer?   ... View more

In order for hundreds of PDF files to meet accessibility standards and laws, try this combo as suggested by @Bernd Alheit and @BeviChagnon earlier in this thread.   Use Acrobat's Action Wizzard to automate these steps in each individual PDF file. OR create your own script to perform these actions. Open the metadata dialogue for each individual PDF: File / Document Properties. In the Description tab, ensure that the Title field is filled in with the exact title of the document. Usually that's the same text in the first <H1> used in the document, such as on its cover. In the Initial View tab, set the option to use the Title, not the file name. This will force any PDF reader program to show the title when the PDF is viewed by the end user. Save and close the PDF file.   There might be existing 3rd-party software that can do this, but I don't know of any. Maybe one of our Acrobat scripting gurus in this forum could write a script for this. Publish it. And we could all buy it! 🙂   ... View more

Moderator's note: @C34923026z5q7's suggestion is not the correct answer to the problem and I have UNchecked it as correct: This is how I did it in Acrobat Reader 23 (Jan 2024):   1. In the very top left corner click the hamburger menu (three lines).   2. Select "Preferences".   3. Now in that Preferences window, on the left hand pane (Categories), select "Documents".   4. In the right hand pane check the box titled "Always use filename as document title".   5. Click the "OK" button.   It changes only the perference settings for that particular version of Acrobat installed on that particular computer.   It does not change the setting in the PDF itself so that it can be correctly read on ANY computer with any PDF reader.   To meet accessibility requirements and laws, the PDF file must be compliant for everyone who accesses the file, regardless of whether they use an Adobe brand of PDF reader (like Acrobat) or another vendor's, and regardless of how they've set their personal preferences. The FILE itself must be compliant.   --Bevi [Moderator, and US delegate to the ISO committees for PDF and PDF/UA accessibility standards]   ... View more

It's checking whether or not the language has been set, but not checking whether it's the correct language.   I agree with you: as it is now, it's pretty useless and language should be manually checked.   Same with Alt Text on graphics and hyperlinks: checks whether anything is in the Alt values, not that the Alt Text is correct. You can put gibberish in the Alt Text field and ALL of the checkers will pass it.   And ditto with tags, too. It checks whether at least one tag is in the document, not whether everything is tagged or that they are the right tags. We frequently see client PDFs like these: Everything is tagged <P> without any  headings, lists, etc. Only 1 paragraph is tagged, the rest of the document is untagged (not artifacted). Compound tags like lists contain only <L> and not the <LI> <Lbl> <LBody> combo.   All of the checking software, not just Adobe Acrobat's, are merely automated programs that can evaluate pass/fail  yes/no  0/1  situations. That's all the programmers can program the checkers to do. There's no "I" in the "AI" they use.   So most of the checkers are fairly useless if that's the only method used to check a PDF for compliance. Same for websites where vendors claim they can check everything for compliance on a multi-million page site.   Compliance checks must also include humans who can provide "RI" -- Real Intelligence and knowledge about accessibility.   ... View more

When a table reflows onto successive pages (or columns or text frames), only those table rows that are set as Header rows that "Repeat" will be visible on the succesive pages.   So, go back to page 1 where the table starts and you can see both rows, the one shaded in dark blue and the other shaded in gold/orange. Select both rows together (or individually and do these steps twice), Right-click, and choose Convert to Header Rows. Then, with the rows still selected, Right-click and select Table Options. On the right-most tab Headers and Footers, choose Repeat Header Once per Frame (or one of the other options that fits your design).   Hope this helps!   ... View more

If you're making an interactive PDF that's accessible, then yes, quite a lot has been added or refined for accessible PDFs from InDesign layouts.   If you're making a clickable PDF with hyperlinks, buttons, form fields, and other interactive elements, quite a bit has been refined since 2016.   If you're making an interactive EPUB, it's required by the EPUB standard to be accessible and quite a few things have changed since 2016 to do that.   But if you're just exporting to XML from InDesign layouts, I don't think anything has changed since then.   Suggestion: find a better course that's more up-to-date so that you can create the types of interactive documents you need.   ... View more

in out community I am having a Buy/Sell page where the PDF will be used for the residents to be able add there items for sell By @DACORBE   OK. You want your neighbors to be able to fill in form fields and upload graphics. Usually, we don't call that "editing" a PDF but rather "using" a PDF.   At this time, most browsers can't even display or show a PDF within their browser — the PDF file must be downloaded to the user's computer and opened with a PDF viewing program, like Acrobat Reader.   But there are some browsers that are now displaying the PDF. However, I don't know of any that allow for users to fill in PDF forms:  that's an advanced feature that we might see in the coming years, but isn't yet available.  All of this depends upon the manufacturers of the browsers, not Adobe or its programs.   Don't waste your time trying to get a PDF form to do the tasks you want to do: fill in the form online and then submit the results to a central database.  Browsers can't do that if the form is a PDF.   I'm a former web developer and I suggest you think about creating an HTML web-based form that connects to a database. Depending upon how your community's website it built, you could find some pre-made code modules or scripts for this, especially what are called "storefront" e-commerce modules to create an online store. Your neighbors could add items, descriptions, other details, and photos, and then directly upload the info to the online store where others could view them.   If your website is created with WordPress, search for WordPress themes at sites like this: https://wordpress.com/themes/free   If your website can run Softalicious, search for modules at https://softaculous.com/apps   Summary: A PDF form is not the best way to accomplish your goals. Instead, look for an HTML-based script, module, or app to do this online.   ... View more

Adobe doesn't put much keyboard accessibility into their programs, including Acrobat. But there is SOME functionality that might be enough for you.   Some basic keyboard shortcuts I've learned over the years: F4 opens and closes the left side Navigation Pane where the tag tree panel lives. You can also get to it from the View menu (Alt+V) / Show-Hide / Nativation Panes / whichever one you'd like. Note that with Acrobat's menus, once you're in one you can use the up/down arrows to slide down the menu, and the left/right arrows to expand/collapse a menu. Once you're in the Tags Tree, arrow up/down to highlight the tag you want to move. Then Control C to cut it to the clipboard. Arrow down/up and left/right to position the selection point where you want to paste the tag, and then Control V to paste it.   A list of Acrobat keyboard shortcuts is at https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/keyboard-shortcuts.html  Note that this list is for the new Acrobat interface and might be different for the classic interface.   ... View more

Hard to see from your screen captures what's happening.   My inclination is that this has something to do with how the original source file was created and formatted in Word, and how it was exported from Word to PDF. If the PDF was exported correctly, you shoudn't have to do much in Acrobat to correct its accessibility.   Try re-exporting the PDF from Word using one of these 3 methods described in this blog, and see if the table is correctly tagged afterwards. https://www.pubcom.com/blog/tutorials/ms-office/export-pdf/index.shtml   ... View more

You're experiencing Adobe's new interface for Acrobat. You're not alone with your response!   You can revert to the "classic" interface: On Macs, go to the View menu and select Disable New Acrobat. On Windows, to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner (where the old File menu used to be) and select Disable New Acrobat, it's about 2/3 down the menu.   Let Adobe know: You can voice your opinion about the new interface at UserVoice: https://acrobat.uservoice.com/forums/590923-acrobat-for-windows-and-mac/suggestions/47082691-ditch-t...  Be sure to leave a comment about your opinion and experience with the new interface. They need to hear from us users.   FYI, UserVoice is Adobe's official website where it reads and takes into account suggestions and complaints from users of its various products.  On the other hand, this community forum is a user-to-user help forum and information posted here rarely reaches ears or eyes at Adobe.   ... View more

Whether or not the PDF bookmarks are visible when the PDF is opened is controlled by whoever creates and publishes the PDF, not the end user.   So, no, there's no way to globally set YOUR version of Acrobat to not open the bookmarks panel, if the PDF has been set by the author to show the bookmarks panel.   Best thing to do is just click the panel to snap it shut and out of your way.   ... View more

Learn how to switch back to the "classic" Acrobat interface at https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-discussions/acrobat-2023-how-to-revert-to-classic-gui-user-interface/m-p/14063017   Be sure to let Adobe know your comments about the new design. You're not alone! Voice your comments directly to Adobe at https://acrobat.uservoice.com/forums/590923-acrobat-for-windows-and-mac/suggestions/47082691-ditch-the-2023-user-interface-in-acrobat  and be sure to click the VOTE button at the top.   ... View more

Don't forget UserVoice comments, too. As of January 2024, there are 13 pages of comments from users and 350+ votes against it, one of the highest vote counts in UserVoice.   Post your comments on UserVoice and vote there, too!  UserVoice is where Adobe actually reads the posts, but rarely here in this help forum. Vote and Directly Comment to Adobe at: https://acrobat.uservoice.com/forums/590923-acrobat-for-windows-and-mac/suggestions/47082691-ditch-the-2023-user-interface-in-acrobat   ... View more

Many of us Community Experts are beta testers for Adobe's programs. And many of us have been very clear that we don't like the new Spectrum2 interface for Acrobat, long before it was released to the public. They did listen a bit and improved the icons, size, and color scheme...and added the lable "Menu" next to the hamburger 3 horizontal bars in the upper left. Oh, and they now let us move that menu bar so that it doesn't cover up part of the document we're trying to read.   But overall, it's a nightmare to use for real work-related production. So much slower to find the tools I need to use frequently, every day.   Let Adobe know: You can voice your opinion about the new interface at UserVoice: https://acrobat.uservoice.com/forums/590923-acrobat-for-windows-and-mac/suggestions/47082691-ditch-t...  Be sure to leave a comment about your opinion and experience with the new interface. They need to hear from us users.   FYI, UserVoice is Adobe's official website where it reads and takes into account suggestions and complaints from users of its various products.  On the other hand, this community forum is a user-to-user help forum and information posted here rarely reaches ears or eyes at Adobe.   Learn about the new interface: https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/new-acrobat-experience.html   ... View more

Is your version of Acrobat using the traditional interface or the new interface? If the icon panels are switched to opposite sides, that's the new interface.   Try disabling the new interface and switching back to the traditional. This sometimes clears up compatability problems with plug-ins.   Instructions to disable the new interface: Windows: Click the hamburger menu ( 3 lines ) at the upper left corner and choose Disable new Acrobat. macOS: Go to View > Disable new Acrobat.   ... View more

Yes, Acrobat does have a tool panel that allows you to select text, graphics, and tables and tag them. They then will appear in the Tags Panel.   From the ORDER panel, select Show Reading Order Panel from the drop-down menu in the upper left of the panel. This brings up a floating tool panel and your cursor will change to crosshairs. Acrobat's Reading Order Panel. Using the crosshairs cursor, drag around the text you want to add to the tag tree. Once selected, choose the appropriate tag from the Panel. You should now see the text in the TAGS panel with its tag.   Hope this helps.   ... View more

That's great news, @bren87! Glad you stuck with it and drilled down to find the problem.   And you're correct: Text frames themselves do not need to be artifacted in Object Styles or any other method. The text frame container is automatically artifacted by InDesign itself, leaving the frame's content intact and tagged.   Some other elements that are automatically artifacted by InDesign: Anything placed on a parent/master page is automatically artifacted. Graphic frames are similar to text frames: the container frame itself is artifacted, leaving the graphic intact and tagged as <Figure>. Rules above/below, Borders, and Shading are automatically artifacted and leave the text content intact and tagged. Underlines on text, including those used to indicated hyperlinks are automatically artifacted. Cell Borders and Shading in tables are artifacted, leaving the cell contents intact and tagged. Borders/rules between columns are artifacted. If using footnotes, the short horizontal line above the first footnote's text is artifacted.   I'm sure I've missed a couple but those are the main elements I can recall from memory.   You only have to manually artifact something only if you deliberately create or place it on the page, like an unimportant graphic that is only eye candy but has no significant visual information to convey. Otherwise, InDesign pretty much automatically takes care of the items listed above.   Best to you!   ... View more