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From: Josh Schroder
Date: Apr 3, 2018 10:02AM

Hi Lisa,

That is odd, indeed. I haven't seen that one before.

Have you tested it with a screen reader to see what happens?

Josh

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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of L Snider
Sent: Tuesday, April 3, 2018 10:36 AM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] PDF tagged or not?

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
> To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> 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
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