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• • May 23, 2017 at 9:33 pm #94821
    Katie Stone

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    Hello team,

    I regularly have to make many of my lengthy InDesign documents into accessible PDFs. I understand using paragraph styles and setting the correct export tag for each style. I also use the articles panel to specify reading order. The issue I am having is as follows:

    – I am exporting a PDF from InDesign.
    – In InDesign I have selected the correct ‘export tagging’ option for each paragraph style such as H1, H2 etc.
    – However, most of my headings are actually numbered lists (Eg. 1.1 Introduction)
    – So upon opening the PDF, the headings auto tag as ‘lists’ instead of H1, H2 etc

    I have checked the role mapping dialogue box and can see that most of my styles come through and are mapped correctly but I cannot see any of my heading styles there as they are auto tagging as lists. This is creating errors in the heading hierarchy. How can I ensure that my headings are correctly tagged as headings instead of lists when exporting from Indesign?

    Thanks

  • November 24, 2017 at 12:06 pm #99859
    AaronA

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    A very good question, Katie. Did you ever resolve this?

  • November 24, 2017 at 5:42 pm #99873
    Katie Stone

    Member

    Hi Aaron, Unfortunately not. Once the document is finished, my workaround is to apply the ‘convert bullets to text’ function to each heading – working from the end of the document to the beginning so that the numbering stays in the correct sequence. Or the other option is not to use numbered lists at all – manually typing in the numbers into the headings instead. I have investigated this issue a lot and have had no success. Any suggestions would be welcome!

  • November 26, 2017 at 6:29 pm #99884
    AaronA

    Participant

    Sorry to hear, Katie.

    I’m not sure why you have to go back to front when converting bullets; as long as all the bullets of a given numbered list are part of the same story, you can select all and convert them at once, right?

  • January 11, 2018 at 9:28 am #100883
    Anonymous

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    Hi Katie,
    I was having a similar issue and was getting an error message about styles not being int he correct heirarchy. I changed the export options of all of the paragraph styles to automatic, and I don’t get that error message any more.

  • January 11, 2018 at 1:51 pm #100893
    Katie Stone

    Member

    Hi Diane,
    Thanks for your response, however I think if you change all the export options to automatic then there is nothing to tell Acrobat what are headings and what are paragraphs. It is most likely tagging everything as paragraphs and lists – and because there are no headings there are no hierarchy errors appearing. It may pass the accessibility checker but I don’t think it is correct. I think I will list it as a bug and see if I get a response: https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601180-adobe-indesign-bugs

  • January 26, 2018 at 2:16 pm #101276
    Shane Smith

    Member

    Indesign knows that your heading is a list even if you tell it to be a heading. It’s just the way the program works. The only way around this (which is mentioned above) is the convert the heading numbers to real text starting from the back moving forward. Indesign should have a function to convert the list of headings on export.

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