With recently introduced regulations (EU Accessibility Act 2025) in the UK, I am being asked by customers to produce accessible PDFs. I have discovered that InDesign cannot anchor objects to a reference which is on a different spread. Also, objects which are more than one page in length (e.g. tables, boxes/panels) cannot be anchored at all. This is a serious drawback for InDesign users and needs to be addressed immediately.

In addition to allowing graphics to be anchored across the InDesign document spread, can we also find a way to allow continued tables to be anchored as well?

On a PhD thesis, tables have to be placed at the top/bottom of the page.

The dialogue box could have 'next page' secondary option, i.e. if it doesn't fit, move it to top of next page.

As more countries require accessible document files, graphic designers need this feature in order to make a fully accessible PDF or EPUB of their work.

Here are 2 inquiries from the Adobe Forums that appear within hours of each other.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/accessibility-and-figures/m-p/12210813, and
https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/anchoring-images-to-different-pages/m-p/12211002#M438927

Please create a way to allow a designer to anchor a graphic (or other element, such as another text frame for a sidebar) between spreads.

The work arounds for this a very time-consuming and not the best solution for accessibility.

See also this discussion at the Adobe InDesign user forum:

Accessibility and figures
Tracy5DA4, an hour ago
https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/accessibility-and-figures/td-p/12210813

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( ACP )

So critical!
Especially common problem in long documents, such as reports, where the chart graphic won't fit on the page where it's referenced in the body text.
We need to be able to anchor graphics (and groups, and text frames) to a spread that is before/after the one where they are visible.