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Re: Artifact tag vs. Change tag to artifact in Acrobat

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From: Philip Kiff
Date: Mar 6, 2020 2:25PM

I've seen Artifact tags start to pop up in files as well. I hadn't quite
pinned down what was going on, but following Jon's suggestion, I just
now performed a quick test with Word 365 (16.0.12527.20170) 32-bit and
when you generate a PDF using their built-in PDF conversion engine,
images that you have checked with the "Mark as decorative" setting seem
to be tagged with the Artifact tag in the tag tree via the rolemap.

Like Bev, I have found myself having to artifact the Artifact tags in
some documents. "Crazy" is right! And I echo her general complaint about
the frustration we find ourselves in these days where the different
stakeholders are not coordinating their efforts very well.

Phil.

On 2020-03-06 14:38, Jonathan Avila wrote:
> Last year when I converted from Word using the Acrobat plugin I started to see the artifact tag show up in the role mappings section. At one point it was mapping certain tags to artifact tags.
>
> Jon
On 2020-03-06 15:27, <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote:
> [....] This is a good example of the lack of coordination between all the stakeholders: the standards committees, PDF software producers, and assistive technologies.
>
> They all have to get on the same page of the hymnal in order to provide any benefit to the end users.
>
> When we get complaints from clients and end users about them, we artifact out the <Artifact> tags. Crazy.