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From: Eckelberry, Robin
Date: Apr 3, 2025 10:37AM

Hello WebAIM!



I've looked through the archives and may have missed it, but I'm wondering if folks have experience with InDesign and the Reading Order Panel/Content Panel specifically in Acrobat?



Arranging the content in InDesign using the Articles panel creates the PDF with the correct tag order, but the reading order and content order (essential for reading technologies like text-to-speech, Read Aloud in Edge, for example), are completely out of order in Acrobat.



Does anyone know of a way to address this issue at the InDesign level?



With how InDesign exports every line as a separate content box (as opposed to grouping all lines of a paragraph together in one content box, for example), that creates a ton of containers in the Content panel in Acrobat, so having to adjust the order in the Content panel in Acrobat will be no easy feat.



Thanks!

Robin



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