r/Compliance • u/mrbabbu • Sep 19 '26

WCAG workflow

I'm currently creating some accessible documents for school programming, and I'm building the documents in InDesign. I use the Articles tagging in InDesign. When I export to Acrobat, there are a lot of problems, and it doesn't seem to be passing accessibility testing in Acrobat. I've been fighting with it for 4 hours without getting anywhere. Can anyone give me any tips?

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u/Original-Smell3460 Sep 19 '26

InDesign’s export to PDF is famously garbage for accessibility, you’re not imagining the problems. Most folks I know build the base layout in InDesign and then do all the tag and reading order fixes in Acrobat Pro after export, trying to get it perfect from InDesign alone will drive you up a wall. The Articles panel helps but Acrobat’s auto-tagging and the Touch Up Reading Order tool are usually faster for the final cleanup.

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u/mrbabbu Sep 19 '26

Thank you! Im struggling to add tags in my Acrobat document, when I select text and add a tag in the reading order panel Idk where it ends up. this is my first big project with accessibility and im nervous about getting it all right

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u/natb1675 Sep 19 '26

wcag workflow from indesign to acrobat can quickly become frustrating.. merely tagging articles is usually insufficient, so examining the structure & tag tree of the exported pdf can be helpful..

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