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 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>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>s 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 apologize for the inconvenience caused by these issues.
Issue #1 and #6 were the regressions introduced with Sept 14th update and hence were fixed on priority with Sept 29th Update (Release Notes for September 29, 2021). With the latest version (22.001.20085) of Acrobat Pro DC released on March 7th (Release Notes for March 07, 2022), issues #2 and #3 have also been fixed. Issues #4 and #5 have been partially fixed so that PathPathPath tags won’t be part of the tag tree anymore. The remaining issue for #4 and # 5 (Borders and background shadings on Text Boxes / paragraphs are being tagged as <Figure>s) have already been added to our product backlog and those will be prioritized to be fixed in coming releases.
You can use the menu item Help → Check for Updates… to get the latest version of Acrobat Pro DC containing these fixes. Please try out the fixes and share the feedback as that will help us make our applications better from accessibility perspective.
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Tanvi Rastogi
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 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>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>s 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)…
I work on GOV.UK for the Department for Education and this bug has had a huge impact on our content's accessibility.
This can currently only be fixed by manually clicking into each cell row and deleting the P tag (unless there are any other work arounds?) Some of our research publications have over 40 tables in them and this is having a huge impact on our teams’ resource. We are having to spend hours, days fixing PDFs to ensure this error is fixed and the content meets the new accessibility legislation that came into force for public sector content back in 2018. This is having a direct impact on our publishing deadlines.
This also has an impact on all PDFs with tables previously published on GOV.UK. When we initially published content it was accessible but with this update these publications no longer are. This is a global issue and will affect the accessibility of 1000s of publications on GOV.UK.
Please can you let us know when we can expect a fix for this.
Vikki Howe
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I work on GOV.UK for the Department for Education and this bug has had a huge impact on our content's accessibility.
This can currently only be fixed by manually clicking into each cell row and deleting the P tag (unless there are any other work arounds?) Some of our research publications have over 40 tables in them and this is having a huge impact on our teams’ resource. We are having to spend hours, days fixing PDFs to ensure this error is fixed and the content meets the new accessibility legislation that came into force for public sector content back in 2018. This is having a direct impact on our publishing deadlines.
This also has an impact on all PDFs with tables previously published on GOV.UK. When we initially published content it was accessible but with this update these publications no longer are. This is a global issue and will affect the accessibility of 1000s of publications on GOV.UK.
Please can you let us know when we can expect a fix for this.