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From: Philip Kiff
Date: May 11, 2020 2:18PM

Mmmm....those instructions are a bit more garbled that I assumed, when I
sent the link! What I mean is just the "unmarked annotations" part. Use
the Find feature in the Tags tree to see if there are any unmarked
annotations. If there are any, then use that feature to mark them as
Form items. If there are no "unmarked annotations", then that's not the
problem and my guess is wrong, so you can ignore the rest.

On 2020-05-11 16:11, Philip Kiff wrote:
> The Acrobat errors you list can arise for various reasons, and there
> is not always one method to fix each specific error. I would start
> with the form field and "annotation" issues. Sometimes fixing those
> might make other errors disappear.
>
> 2) "Tagged form fields-failed"
> Here I would guess that you have added Form tags, but you haven't
> marked the "annotations" as Form fields. Acrobat doesn't automatically
> mark form fields correctly when you simply use the "Form" button the
> "Touch Up Reading Order" tool. Form fields that are not recognized
> automatically often require additional manual tweaking. Maybe you can
> try to follow the instructions provided by WebAIM to tag these
> unmarked annotations?:
> https://webaim.org/techniques/acrobat/forms#tags
>
> Phil.
>
> On 2020-05-11 15:55, Itzel McClaren (US - IFS) via WebAIM-Forum wrote:
>> We are using Acrobat to fix the issues.
>>
>> Here they are:
>> 1) "Other elements alternate text - fails" It highlights the items in
>> the
>> table of contents.
>> 2) "Tagged form fields-failed"- However, we added the tags and still
>> have
>> the same errors.
>> 3) "Other elements alternate text-Failed"- It highlight some of the
>> images
>> included in the document. But those images have alt text.
>>
>> On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 2:47 PM L Snider < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>>
>>> Also were you trying to fix it because of the Acrobat checker or using
>>> another checker for PDF/UA?
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Lisa
>>>
>>> On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 4:41 PM Paul Rayius < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> HI Itzel,
>>>> Can you be more specific what the issues are that you're having?
>>>> Feel free to email me directly if you'd like.  I won't try to sell you
>>>> anything - I'm not in sales!
>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>> Paul
>>>>
>>>> Paul Rayius
>>>> Director of Training
>>>> CommonLook
>>>>
>>>>