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Re: Acrobat X Form Fields not in the tag tree

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From: Donna Lettow
Date: Mar 5, 2012 12:39PM

If you've started with a tagged PDF, after you've put in your form fields, delete the Tags Root (that's the tag that says TAGS) and then Add Tags to Document. Now the form fields will show up in the tag tree.

Donna Lettow
Staff Specialist, Electronic Accessibility & Internal Communication
MD Division of Rehabilitation Services
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Baltimore, MD 21218
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-----Original Message-----
From: Carr, Robert G. [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2012 10:10 AM
To: 'WebAIM Discussion List'
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Acrobat X Form Fields not in the tag tree

Hi Karen-

We were starting from tagged PDF files. It seems counterintuitive to start with untagged PDFs, but our intuition has failed us to this point anyway.

Thanks very much for your guidance, we'll give this a shot.

Warm regards,
Rob

-----Original Message-----
From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Karlen Communications
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2012 8:53 AM
To: 'WebAIM Discussion List'
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Acrobat X Form Fields not in the tag tree

Did you start with an untagged PDF? When creating forms, you have to start with an untagged PDF. Use Print, Adobe PDF as your printer. Work on the form controls in Acrobat and THEN add Tags.

Cheers, Karen

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Carr, Robert G.
Sent: March-05-12 9:37 AM
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Subject: [WebAIM] Acrobat X Form Fields not in the tag tree

We are working to add form fields to some forms that were originally created in MS Word 2010. We used Word to lay the form fields and other text out and removed the form field placeholders for radio buttons and text boxes before
converting them to PDF. We have had Acrobat identify text entry fields and
we have manually added radio buttons. In either case, the form fields do not appear in the tag tree.

Though not in the tag tree, NVDA read the form fields that we have added.

We manually tagged the radio buttons and found that, while in the tag tree, they were then not read by NVDA.

I have found some posts online about this happening in Acrobat X, but no solutions yet. I would appreciate it if the resident WebAIM list PDF gurus chimed in to point us in the right direction.

Thanks much,

Rob Carr
Coordinator
CCE-IT Digital Accessibility Center
College of Continuing Education Information Technology University of Oklahoma Outreach
405.325.3303 (Desk)
405.664.2772 (Cell)
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