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From: L Snider
Date: Sep 27, 2021 3:07PM

Thanks for all your hard work on this and the removal instructions! I
really hope they get this sorted...It shows they do no testing on the
back end with users who do accessibility, or users with disabilities,
when they make major changes. I hope this spurs change, it is 2021.

Cheers

Lisa

On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 5:48 PM < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> Thanks to everyone who posted their concerns (and other "feelings") about
> the recent problems with PDFs exported from Word with Adobe's PDF Maker
> plug-in. We have more than 150 votes at
> https://www.familyhandyman.com/project/garage-floor-resurfacing-fix-a-pitted
> -garage-floor/
>
> (As some commented, what does it mean when we have to vote to get bugs
> fixed?)
>
> Some good news and not so good news.
>
> 1. Our blog that details the problems also has some help
> https://www.pubcom.com/blog/2021-09-24_bugs/bugs_pdfmaker_1.shtml:
>
> a. A handout you can use to export PDFs from Word using Microsoft's
> built-in PDF utility. At this time, it's not putting in any of the problems
> as Adobe's, but who knows. Both companies have been known to seriously botch
> this process.
> https://www.pubcom.com/blog/2021-09-24_bugs/bugs_pdfmaker_1.shtml#download
> We've given our instructions a creative commons license, which will allow
> you to electronically distribute it within your organization.
>
> 2. Adobe has said they are working on a bug fix for the missing
> Alt-text on graphics.
>
> 3. But upon further testing over the weekend, we've documented another
> twist on that bug: When a graphic is manually marked in Word as decorative /
> artifacted, the resulting tagged PDF is a mess:
>
> a. PDF Maker adds gibberish code as Alt-text.
>
> b. It is tagged as <P> with the image data. Not only is this a
> violation of the PDF/UA-1 standard (image data must be in a <Figure> tag),
> but it is voiced as a confusing bunch of crud: no announcement that there's
> an image, the screen readers pick up the gibberish Alt-text.
>
> c. See the September 27 update to our blog at
> https://www.pubcom.com/blog/2021-09-24_bugs/bugs_pdfmaker_1.shtml#sept27
>
> 4. Issues are found in the Mac update as well, including this one
> about dragging/dropping in Acrobat's tree panels:
> https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-discussions/acrobat-pro-accessibility
> -tools-not-working/m-p/12408086#M331041
>
> 5. And I'll end on some good news. Adobe has released the super-secret
> instructions on how to remove the current buggy version of Acrobat and roll
> back to the previous install. See Ankit Kumar Gupta's solution at
> https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-discussions/install-the-previous-patc
> h-update/m-p/12387847#M3... Suggestion: keep that information for future
> reference, and pass it along to your IT department.
>
> My best to you.and please encourage others to vote.
>
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