Hi,

Thank you for raising these accessibility issues. The post mentions about the following six bugs being introduced with the update that went live on September 14, 2021:

1: Alt-Text for images from MS Word is not converting into the PDF. Instead, it is dropped and gibberish code is inserted.
2: Every cell border on every table cell is being tagged as P tag with PathPathPathPath
3: The underline on Hyperlinks should be tagged as artifacts
4: Borders and background shadings on Text Boxes are being tagged as a combination of Figure tags and PathPathPath
5: Paragraph borders and shadings: same deal as #4 above.Per the PDF/UA-1 standard, they are visually decorative and should be artifacted
6: Dragging and dropping elements in both the Tag and Order panels is now broken

Would like to mention that out of these, #1 and #6 were introduced with the Sep 14 update and remaining (#2, #3, #4 & #5) were present even in the Acrobat version prior to Sep 14 update. We are also very sorry for the inconvenience caused by these issues.

Issue #1 and #6 being new issues with Sep 14 update were fixed on priority and another update on Sep 29th (Release Notes for September 29, 2021: https://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/acrobatetk/tools/ReleaseNotesDC/continuous/dccontinuoussept2021qfe.html#dccontinuoussepttwentytwentyoneqfe ) carried the fixes for both of them. You can click Help → Check for Updates… to get the latest version of Acrobat containing these fixes.

The remaining issues have been added to our product backlog and will be prioritized to be fixed in coming releases.

Thanks & Regards
Tanvi Rastogi

Hi all

Thank you for raising these PDFMaker accessibility issues.  We are evaluating the issues for inclusion in upcoming releases. 

Thanks for your patience.

-Tanvi

Hi All,

With the September 2021 release, PDFs with missing/incorrect table headers are flagged in the Accessibility Checker and show as failed in the accessibility check result. We have made some changes for reverting the behaviour of Accessibility Checker to pre-September Release.
The fix is available with the latest update of Acrobat & Reader DC Continuous track: https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-discussions/adobe-acrobat-and-reader-21-007-2009x-optional-update-is-live/td-p/12412471. Apply the fix and then follow the steps mentioned here: https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/table-header-fails-in-accessibility-checker.html.
As part of this update, we have also fixed the alt-text of images getting missed and issue in dragging and dropping elements in both the Tag and Order panels.
We have taken a note of remaining PDFMaker tagging issues to assess for overall impact and address them in upcoming releases accordingly.
Thanks for your patience.

Thanks
Tanvi

Hi

Thanks for reporting the issues. We have taken a note of these issues and are looking into it.

Thanks
Tanvi