Disable automatic sect-tags on PDF export
When exporting a tagged PDF, InDesign automatically creates Sect-Tags for each story. I would like to be able to disable this feature on export for the following reasons:
- As far as I know, they are of limited value for screen reader users. The content is usually already well structured by means of an appropriate heading structure.
- It is very difficult to integrate figures into a story in a semantically correct/meaningful way. When anchoring them in the text, they will be nested in p-tags, which is according to PDF/UA not correct semantically. Hence, I avoid creating stories and use the article panel for setting up the reading order. This makes the sect-tags very redundant though.
- Often, pre-edits of the tagging in Acrobat Pro are necessary. All those Sect-tags bloat up the tagging tree unnecessarily and obfuscate the actual tagging structure. I want to be able to see heading and p tags without expanding large amounts of Sect-tags.
For these reasons, I suggest to add a checkbox "Disable automatic creation of sect-tags" on export for interactive PDF.
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Tobias We
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Scott M
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It's incredible this hasn't received any attention. The <Sect> tags are a problem, and need to be removed.
It's annoying when InDesign exports something that we didn't ask it to do. We only need the <Art> tag with our tagged content under <Art>.
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Tobias We
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Edit for 3:
Often, POST-export edits [...]