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From: Sean Keegan
Date: Apr 10, 2019 9:05PM

Hi - I just conducted an accessible PDF remediation workshop and
encountered numerous issues with the latest version of Acrobat Pro DC.
Specifically, the issues included:
1) When zoning text or images (or running the Make Accessible Wizard or
Autotagging the PDF), content would disappear or drop behind other elements.

2) If some text content were set as Background mistakenly, it was not
possible re-zone that text content and mark it as text (or heading) in the
Reading Order panel; that is, no tag was created.

I have had all these issues before, but I have not had these issues
recently with previous versions of Acrobat Pro (or even earlier versions of
Acrobat Pro DC). Trying to remediate the same PDFs using Acrobat XI worked
just fine, but the latest Pro DC seems to be causing problems.

Anyone else having issues similar to these?

Also - I've never gotten a decent workaround to the disappearing text
issue. Open to ideas.

thanks,
sean