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From: Lucy GRECO
Date: Mar 9, 2022 12:54PM

great news. by any chance do you have any instructions of how to use the
new version i can point a student to i don't have copies of the softwair
but the student will so any thing i can give them to get stratedon a mass
pdf checking and remediation project would be so nice as she has never done
pdf testing and or remediation before thanks lucy


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On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 11:42 AM < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Great news, list colleagues!
>
> Adobe released version 22 of Acrobat Pro today, and with it, the MS Office
> plug-in PDF Maker was fixed, too. (PDF Maker converts MS Office documents
> to
> accessible tagged PDFs) Adobe's announcement is below <> .
>
> Because 206 people voted to fix these bugs at www.Acrobat.UserVoice.com,
> the
> previous version's bugs were put on the fast track. All of you made that
> happen!
>
> No more PathPathPathPath all over tables and other parts of our documents.
> Your personal comments helped put the bugs on Adobe's radar.
>
> Note these two items:
>
> 1. Vote one more time…this time to thank Adobe. Let's acknowledge
> their reaffirmed commitment to accessibility. Add your thanks at either the
> Acrobat User Voice page or at the Adobe Forums (or at both):
>
> a. Acrobat User Voice vote page
> <
> https://acrobat.uservoice.com/forums/590923-acrobat-for-windows-and-mac/sug
> gestions/44183082-accessibility-errors-with-pdf-maker-update-sept-20
> <https://acrobat.uservoice.com/forums/590923-acrobat-for-windows-and-mac/suggestions/44183082-accessibility-errors-with-pdf-maker-update-sept-20>>
> .
>
> b. Adobe Public Forums webpage.
> <
> https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-discussions/alt-text-converting-wron
> g-from-word-to-pdf/td-p/11352677/page/2
> <https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-discussions/alt-text-converting-wrong-from-word-to-pdf/td-p/11352677/page/2>
> >
>
> 2. Update your version of Acrobat DC Pro to version 22 (build number
> 22.001.20085). The new PDF Maker plug-in will automatically be installed
> into your MS Office apps along with Acrobat itself. You can view your
> current version under the Help menu in Acrobat (Windows).
>
> a. If you need to put in a support request to your IT department,
> refer them to the above 2 links as well as to Adobe's release notes
> webpage, Acrobat 22 release notes.
> <https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/whats-new/2022-march.html> Remind
> IT to reboot your computer after the update is installed (I prefer cold
> boots, a k a total shut down and then restart).
>
> b. I uploaded two sample PDFs, before and after, to the User Voice
> page with today's post; the after version shows the improved accessibility
> in the 2022 update, and the before version shows the hot mess of buggy tags
> we've had for a couple of years. Sample PDFs
> <
> https://acrobat.uservoice.com/forums/590923-acrobat-for-windows-and-mac/sug
> gestions/44183082-accessibility-errors-with-pdf-maker-update-sept-20
> <https://acrobat.uservoice.com/forums/590923-acrobat-for-windows-and-mac/suggestions/44183082-accessibility-errors-with-pdf-maker-update-sept-20>>
> . I
> know that webpage is a disorganized mess of posts and samples, so if you
> can't find today's samples, email me directly and I'sll send them to you.
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>
> Great job, everyone! And thanks so much for this community's support and
> help. YOU are the best in the industry.
>
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>
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>
>
>
> Adobe's announcement today:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Thank you for raising these accessibility issues. The post mentions about
> the following six bugs being introduced with the update that went live on
> September 14, 2021
>
> 1: Alt-Text from MS Word is not converting into the PDF. Instead, it is
> dropped and gibberish code is inserted
>
> 2: Every cell border on every table cell is being tagged as
> <P>PathPathPathPath
>
> 3: The underline on Hyperlinks should be tagged as artifacts
>
> 4: Borders and background shadings on Text Boxes are being tagged as a
> combination of <Figure>s and PathPathPath
>
> 5: Paragraph borders and shadings: same deal as #4 above. Per the PDF/UA-1
> standard, they are visually decorative and should be artifacted
>
> 6: Dragging and dropping elements in both the Tag and Order panels is now
> broken.
>
> Would like to mention that out of these, #1 and #6 were introduced with the
> Sep 14 update and remaining (#2, #3, #4 & #5) were present even in the
> Acrobat version prior to Sep 14 update. We apologize for the inconvenience
> caused by these issues.
>
> Issue #1 and #6 were the regressions introduced with Sept 14th update and
> hence were fixed on priority with Sept 29th Update (Release Notes for
> September 29, 2021).
>
> With the latest version (22.001.20085) of Acrobat Pro DC released on March
> 7th (Release Notes for March 07, 2022), issues #2 and #3 have also been
> fixed.
>
> Issues #4 and #5 have been partially fixed so that PathPathPath tags won't
> be part of the tag tree anymore. The remaining issue for #4 and # 5
> (Borders
> and background shadings on Text Boxes / paragraphs are being tagged as
> <Figure>s) have already been added to our product backlog and those will be
> prioritized to be fixed in coming releases.
>
> You can use the menu item Help → Check for Updates… to get the latest
> version of Acrobat Pro DC containing these fixes. Please try out the fixes
> and share the feedback as that will help us make our applications better
> from accessibility perspective.
>
> Thanks & Regards
>
> Tanvi Rastogi
>
> (Adobe Engineer)
>
> > > > >