I’m wondering if someone may have a solution to this text box problem. I am trying to create 508 compliant forms and I’m 95% there except for the text boxes. The two text boxes have their role set to Heading and Heading Level 1 so they are recognized by Acrobat. However for some reason they are not being read when the form is tabbed through in Acrobat Reader using the read aloud function under the view menu.
In the screen shot below the first element to be read on the form while tabbing is “Enter Date” then Start Date and then End Date and so on. The title (Heading) and subtitle (Heading Level 1) are both being skipped even though the tabbing order is correct.
If I change the title and subtitle from a (Text box) to a (Text Field) they are both read correctly when tabbing through the form. The problem is the words (text field) are then added to the end of the titles implying that the user should add text at that point which is incorrect so that is not a solution.
Can text boxes be read by tabbing or is it only controls can be read while tabbing?
Any guidance or direction to a solution on this would be greatly appreciated.
