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Re: PAC 3 with zero checkpoint results, how to fix?

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From: jp Jamous
Date: Mar 7, 2024 9:44AM

Hi Christine,

I recently heard about Pac. While I do not have an answer for your question, I would like to take the opportunity to ask you a question. Is Pac an open source application? Based on the research I did it sounded that it is an open source program.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Subject: [WebAIM] PAC 3 with zero checkpoint results, how to fix?

Hello everyone,

We've been using PAC 3 for a while but not too frequently (basically on client request) and recently I looked at two PDFs that are clearly tagged but when I run them in PAC 3, they come up as zero for many of the checkpoint categories, and one PDF in particular it first came up normal with a bunch of Fail items to fix and when we fixed them, then suddenly those categories came up as zero instead of the previous number of scanned items the file had. Not useful since it's showing the PDF as passing but that's because it thinks it has zero items to pass or fail ha ha!

Is there something that causes this to happen, like an export error or using a certain setting in Indesign or using a fix in Acrobat's Preflight tools? Is there a fix for this so that the tags and other items are scanned like they should be?

I know there's a newer version of PAC (PAC 2024) but some of our clients have explicitly listed PAC 3 passing so that's what I'm aiming for, at least for the moment.

Thanks!

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