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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 2:31PM

Err...I mispoke, I didn't mean the built-in PDF conversion engine, but
the Acrobat plugin conversion engine.

On 2020-03-06 16:25, Philip Kiff wrote:
> 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.
> > > >