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From: Elizabeth Thomas
Date: Oct 6, 2021 12:38PM

Liv,

In Word, make sure that you have checked the option in "Table Design" for header row. Only selecting "repeat as header row" for the header row in "table layout" sometimes does not generate the <TH> tag when the document is converted to PDF.

I do not have the buggy version of Acrobat Pro(thanks to this forum, I was able to flag the issue for IT and not receive the update). However, some of my colleagues have it, and when they converted to PDF with PDF maker the table header tags did follow into the PDF correctly. But I did have the option set for "header row" in table design. (We use Windows, I'm not sure if the same would be true on a Mac).

Hope that helps.

-Elizabeth Thomas
CPACC, ADS

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> On Oct 5, 2021, at 4:59 PM, Liv Detrick < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> I have a follow-up question to the recent thread about PDF creator. I have
> the updated version 2021.700…
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> I am having trouble with tables and I'm not sure if this is a bug with
> Acrobat or something that I am doing wrong. I have documents in Microsoft
> Word that contain tables. When I export to PDF and run the Acrobat
> accessibility checker, I get the error "Headers - Failed"
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> In Microsoft Word, under Acrobat, Preferences, I have "enable advanced
> tagging" checked.
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> Under table properties, I have checked the box "Repeat as header row at the
> top of each page" for the header row.
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> Is there anything else I need to adjust or is this likely an issue with
> Acrobat? I'm a newbie to creating accessible PDF documents and greatly
> appreciate your advice!
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> Thanks,
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> Liv
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