InDesign CS6 not tagging interactive PDF

I don't know if I am doing something wrong but I can't get InDesign to export a properly tagged PDF.
Can anybody please try the following steps and confirm the results:
Create a new document in InDesign
Draw a text box on the document
Type "Text" in the text box
Create new paragraph style called "My heading"
Under Export Tagging in the Paragraph Style Options select "H1" under PDF->Tag
Add the text box to the Articles panel
In the Articles panel fly out menu activate Use for Reading Order in Tagged PDF
Export document as Adobe PDF (Interactive)
In the Export to Interactive PDF options window both options for Tagged PDF are checked
Open the document in Acrobat Pro
Open the Tags navigation pane
Expand the tag hierarchy
If the document is tagged correctly one of the tags should be labeled <H1> . Instead min is labeled what I called it within InDesign <My_heading>. This is essentially making larger documents with multiple heading levels inaccessible.
Can anybody else confirm this issue or provide a fix (other than manually changing tags from within Acrobat Pro)?

I tested in InDesign CC. (This bug would not be fixed in InDesign CS6.)
I can confirm that this bug is still in InDesign CC (see illustration below).
I don't know how to fix this except manually in Acrobat. (I don't normally work with accessibiility issues.)
I'd suggest reporting the bug here:
Adobe - Feature Request/Bug Report Form

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