Table accessibility - ability to select parts of a table and allocate the tag using the Reading Order Panel
Using the latest Adobe Acrobat Pro.
Adobe Acrobat rarely, if ever, correctly auto-allocates tags to do a table. I know it is difficult to do so, and in most cases, I have to hardcode the table using the Reading order panel to make the cells using the paragraph button on the Reading Order panel. And then using new tags and the tags panel to hardcode a table into existence.
This takes a long time, especially as the new tags and paragraph text doesn't pop into the right space. I would like the ability to manually collate sections of text for cells - using something similar to the reading order panel. I can then just move the sections into the right order on the Content Tags panel.
The hardest part is making the text sections for the table. Moving the sections after is not difficult, but can be time consuming. But I don't mind moving the cells to the right reading order.
Christine van Zyl
shared this idea
-
Lex Meadows (they / them) commented
I have been struggling with the table tagging in Adobe. I do them all manually because, as you said, the auto-tags are terrible. Even then they are very buggy. I often have to delete the tag, add it again, delete it, add it again, for it to even be editable. Often when I add a table, the subsequent rows shows up as one big "pathpathpathpathpath" and I can't even use the table editor to define rows.
It's honestly embarrassing at this point for Adobe not to have fixed this.
