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Re: Issues with Adobe accessibility checker converting PPTx to PDF

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From: ecrire
Date: Feb 6, 2023 6:41PM

Hello all,

Just wanted to thank everyone who responded to my questions. It was all
very helpful.

Best,
Catherine


On 2023-02-04 14:34, Laura Roberts wrote:
> The report doesn't contain false positives I usually see. It looks to
> me
> like it hasn't been properly remediated. The reason I say this is the
> first
> 2 fails are common and easy to fix. The nested alt text fail is a
> common
> one too. Did you use an accessible PDF specialist to remediate this?
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2023, 1:08 PM < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Hope your day is going well. I'm looking for some guidance regarding
>> the
>> aforementioned subject. One of our profs is having issues with PDF
>> accessibility and specifically, the false positives when running the
>> checker in Adobe. I copy here some exchanges regarding the problem
>> they
>> are having. But from what I understand, they are hoping to eliminate
>> the
>> false positives from the report as it requires more checking and it is
>> already a lot of work. Is there anything more I can tell them, besides
>> what has already been provided? A little background:
>>
>> After the prof reached out to an internal IT resource, they got this
>> answer:
>>
>> "I've taken a look and I'm wondering whether you should not check off
>> 'Enable Accessibility and Reflow with tagged Adobe PDF box' as it may
>> be
>> overwriting you accessibility pieces that you have done in pptx.
>>
>> That would be my first go-to in determining why this is happening and
>> to
>> simply NOT select that option (Enable Accessibility and Reflow with
>> tagged Adobe PDF) as that option may be adding proper tags for
>> headings,
>> lists, hyperlinks, and other structural elements in the PDF document
>> when it was already there in the pptx."
>>
>> The prof then replied (please see attached screenshots):
>>
>> "I followed your suggestion: I saved the PPTX as a PDF with the Enable
>> Accessibility and Reflow with tagged Adobe PDF box unchecked. Below, I
>> provide excerpts (in the form of screenshots) of the Adobe
>> accessibility
>> checker reports from when the box was unchecked and then from when the
>> box was checked. It seems unchecking the box does not resolve the
>> problem."
>>
>> They then got this reply:
>>
>> "The accessibility report in PDF is reading the textboxes that was
>> created in the PPTX format as figures. It is still good to check what
>> the reasoning is for PDF to be flagging these figures, but with a
>> deeper
>> analysis after the reports, it is clear that alt text was maintained
>> and
>> this was a false positive flag.
>>
>> As you said, doing a review of the errors from the accessibility
>> report
>> via text to speech to go through the flagged material may be
>> beneficial
>> to see if there is something going on with these error flags. Some
>> will
>> be an actual error where you will work on correcting and some will be
>> false errors."
>>
>> And then they reached out to me to see if there was any way to resolve
>> this at the source. I'm not a PDF specialist, so I'm turning to the
>> community to see if there are any ideas about this. Please note the
>> prof
>> is already using the Accessibility Checker in PPTx and have the
>> rudimentary knowledge to make their PPTx accessible using the MS
>> accessibility checker. I apologize if this email is a bit confusing or
>> if this is off-topic, but this is basically the only info I have. I
>> would appreciate feedback on this issue.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Catherine>> >> >> >>
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