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From: chagnon@pubcom.com
Date: Nov 2, 2023 12:09AM

A major bug was recently introduced into Adobe's PDF Maker plug-in for MS
Office / Windows.

With the latest update in September-October, graphics no longer have their
<Figure> tags placed in the correction location of the tag tree's reading
order. Instead, they're scattered throughout the PDF's tag tree, sometimes 3
or 5 or even 15 pages away from their intended location.

Suggestions:

1. We need to vote this up on Adobe's bug website,
https://acrobat.uservoice.com/forums/590923-acrobat-for-windows-and-mac/sugg
estions/47424254-pdf-maker-new-bug-puts-figure-tags-in-the-wrong So please
vote (that's very critical to get it noticed by Adobe's powers) and add your
comments to the discussion. Be sure to let Adobe know that you are required
to make fully accessible PDFs and that this is NOT a minor bug.

2. In the meantime, use Microsoft's internal PDF export utility from
Word. It places the <Figure> correctly in the tag tree. Our blog-tutorial
has directions. Use Method C at
https://www.pubcom.com/blog/tutorials/ms-office/export-pdf/index.shtml

Thanks for helping make accessible documents better!



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