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From: Itzel McClaren (US - IFS)
Date: May 11, 2020 2:24PM

I tried that approach twice and it did not work.

On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 3:19 PM Philip Kiff < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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> >
> < <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> >
> < <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
>
>