508 compliant PDF document

Question

I converted a Word Document to a PDF and ran the Full Accessibility checker on it.  19 instances of images without alt tags came up but when I click to see the images, they are random blue boxes placed throughout the PDF, and they are not in the Word doc.  I try to click on them to delete or add an alt tag and they are not clickable. I've made about 100 documents 508 compliant without running into this problem.  How do I delete the blue boxes?

Answer 1

Hi Jennifer,
There are a couple of things you could do. One is to assign the little blue squares alternate text, but if you want to clean up the document (which is what I do when I get this) the other thing to do is to delete the square and the corresponding tag.
To delete the square:
Select the View > Toolbars > Advanced Editing menu item
Select the TouchUp Object tool on the Advanced Editing toolbar (it's the pencil over the white square icon)
Select each item from the accessibility report
Right mouse click on the blue square and then select Delete from the pop-up menu
Repeat this process for all 19 blue squares
Now you got a new problem, there are 19 tags without any associated content. If you re-run the Accessibility check you can then find the superfluous tags. If are not not viewing the Tags panel you can access it from the View > Navigation Panels > Tags menu item.
I hope this helps,
Steve