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Re: PDF tagged or not?

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From: L Snider
Date: Apr 3, 2018 9:35AM

Hi Josh,

Yep, the document is tagged in that menu. That is tied I think to the
properties setting, which is also a Yes for tags. It is just the checker
that is off.

Odd!

Cheers

Lisa

On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 10:24 AM, Josh Schroder < <EMAIL REMOVED>
> wrote:

> In Acrobat, you should be able to right click on any item in the tags
> tree, and you will see a menu item labeled "Document is Tagged PDF."
>
> You can see a screen capture of this setting here:
> https://forums.adobe.com/thread/612353
>
> This setting sets the internal flag that the document is tagged,
> regardless of whether or not it is. The flag should get set when the tags
> are added by Word or whatever authoring software, but there are some cases
> where the flag won't match up with the actual tags that are present.
>
> Josh Schroder
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On
> Behalf Of Philip Kiff
> Sent: Tuesday, April 3, 2018 10:12 AM
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> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] PDF tagged or not?
>
> I think there may be an internal flag in the PDF format that identifies a
> file as tagged or not. If software doesn't play nicely with the PDF format,
> it may simply omit setting that flag? Or maybe it is missing or has a
> malformed root tag in the tag tree?
>
> Regardless of the cause, if I recall correctly, to fix this, you should be
> able to just right-click the error in Acrobat DC and select "fix"?
>
> Phil.
>
>
> On 2018-04-03 11:05 AM, L Snider wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I have run into a PDF that has tags (done in Word and then added pages
> > in InDesign or similar) in the Tag Window but the Checker says it
> > isn't tagged and the Properties box says there are no tags.
> >
> > I came across this once way, way back and it could have been that
> > someone inadvertently did temporary tags through the set up assistant
> > and this caused the weirdness.
> >
> > I don't think this is the case here, but it could be. I haven't seen
> > this for a long time, so I wondered what can cause a tagged PDF to be
> > seen as not tagged? Just wondering if there are more reasons now than
> > there were years ago,
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Lisa
> > > > > > archives at http://webaim.org/discussion/archives
> > >
> > > at http://webaim.org/discussion/archives
> > > > > >