Placed pdfs lose accessibility and all the tags have to be re-created
When I import or place my pdfs and then export my indesign file all the tags disappear in the exported pdf. This is really annoying as all the tags have to be created again.
Get my tags back , all the accessibility tags which the pdf had before.
Cloey Jules
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Sunni
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The number of Federal and State Government employees in the U.S. alone that are required to make all documents 508-compliant should be enough to make it a priority to fix accessibility issues in your products. Please accommodate us, just as we have to accommodate our readers.
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Sanjeev
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this should pass accessibility of placed PDF in main template.
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Bevi Chagnon
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Think of this as letting the individual tagged elements of the placed PDF be passed down into the InDesign layout and the final exported PDF.
We need the original PDF's tags to be carried through to the new PDF from the new InDesign layout.
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Bevi Chagnon
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We need to be able to drill down into a placed PDF's elements and control the tagging, just as if it was live content in InDesign.
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Bevi Chagnon | ACP
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This is a CRITICAL shortcoming of InDesign.
Accessible PDFs that are placed into an InDesign layout are converted to graphics and lose their individual components (body text, headings, tables, figures, etc.) and are merged together as one huge graphic <Figure>.What's needed: If a placed PDF is accessible -- that is, live tagged text, individual <Figure>, hyperlinks, and everything else that makes it accessible -- and that PDF is placed inside another InDesign layout, then retain the full accessibility and individual components when it is exported to tagged PDF from the new layout.