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From: Steve Green
Date: Sep 29, 2020 9:31AM

I have encountered this several times, but I do not know what causes it. We use the axesPDF QuickFix tool to view and modify the mapping between the glyphs and the underlying Unicode characters, but we usually only need to fix one or two incorrect mappings. I guess you could go through all the mappings for all the fonts and replace the Unicode characters with the ones you want, but that sounds like a lot of work. There may be other ways to do it more efficiently.

Remember that Acrobat's Accessibility Check is only doing a very small number of very simple tests. Passing the test tells you almost nothing about the document's accessibility, other than it is probably not as terrible as it might have been.

What application was the document authored in?

Steve Green
Managing Director
Test Partners Ltd