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pdf Exports Fail Acrobat Accessibility Checker - Table Headers and Tagged Content

Joshua Hart-Steeds August 27, 2025

We need exported pdfs to pass acrobat's accessibility checks. The main issue we were having was with the header rows of tables not being recognised as TH [Table Header] but being identified as TD [Table Data] instead, when preparing for accessibility. I may have fixed this by clicking Table Options > Header Row/Column for each table, but if not, is there a line of code anyone can give me for this to stick in the pdf export settings?

 

The other issue is with "Tagged content" failing, not sure if anyone has any experience fixing this somehow?

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Dan Breyen
Community Champion
August 27, 2025

Hi @Joshua Hart-Steeds I found CONFCLOUD-45682 on Atlassian's Jira Site regarding the creation of accessible documents.  I would suggest voting for and watching it for updates.

Feel free to comment on that work item as well and share how that is impacting your workflows.

 

Joshua Hart-Steeds August 28, 2025

Thanks but I'm not optimistic about this one, the page was created 8 years ago and no longer even seems to be working properly, at least not for me, as I'm unable to vote for it. Not sure how many updates will be coming!

 

For more context and impetus, making my institution's pdfs accessible is a human rights issue, and we will soon have many to export, so a fix from the Confluence side would be the best option for us, and making them accessible after exporting them proves to be very time-consuming.

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