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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Jul 6, 2009 1:40PM

Alyson,
Just recently we posted a document with best practices for InDesign production of accessible PDF files. You can find it linked from http://www.adobe.com/accessibility/products/indesign

You will need to do some table remediation on table tags even if you follow the best practices, but you can accomplish this with Acrobat. The table editor should be an option for you to do the fixes, and if you need to mark multiple headings as <TH> tags you can multiple-select all of the heading cells and set them appropriately.

If you are using indesign you should read this document - it will save you many (but not all) repair steps by eliminating the need for the repair.

Thanks,
AWK

Andrew Kirkpatrick

Senior Product Manager, Accessibility

Adobe Systems

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Hi!

My name is Alyson Fayollat and I'm a designer for Team Member Marketing. We're currently working on a project that requires the end-result PDF (coming from InDesign CS4) to be accessible. The problem we're running into is having tables read correctly. Although they're tagged correctly in InDesign (we hope), a lot of work still needs to be done in Acrobat Professional. When selecting the table in Acrobat, the table editor tool doesn't seem to be an option for finessing. Do we need to manually change the order of the tags in the Tags palette? Or is there a better way?

Thanks!