Bug 168462 - Impress: PDF/PDF UA export tag the background incorrect
Summary: Impress: PDF/PDF UA export tag the background incorrect
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Impress (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
25.8.1.1 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) All
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Keywords: accessibility
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Blocks: PDF-Accessibility
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Reported: 2025-09-18 10:34 UTC by RK
Modified: 2025-09-18 12:21 UTC (History)
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Description RK 2025-09-18 10:34:04 UTC
Description:
I keep running into issues when creating accessible PDFs from Impress, specifically with what seems to be an incorrectly tagged background. 

Regardless of whether the background is a solid color or an image, the result is always the error: “Untagged path object” or “Untagged image object.” If the background in the master slides is set to “None,” this problem doesn’t occur. 

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a presentation with 4 slides and 4 master slides:
- Slide 1: no background
- Slide 2: white background with black text
- Slide 3: black background with white text
- Slide 4: graphic as background, no text
2. Export the presentation as PDF/A-3b (1.7).
- Universal Accessibility (PDF/UA): enabled
- Tagged PDF: enabled
- Export outline: enabled (but grayed out because of PDF/UA)
3. Validate the exported PDF with PAC (https://pac.pdf-accessibility.org/en or check.axes4.com 

Actual Results:
After creating the PDF and checking it with PAC, I got the error described above on 3 of the 4 slides.
On slides with backgrounds (solid color or image), PAC reports:
- “Untagged path object” (solid color background)
- “Untagged image object” (graphic background)
Only the slide with no background passes without errors.

Expected Results:
Im not quite familiar with the PDF/UA-Standard, I think the background should be tagged as an artifact (Background).


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

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Comment 1 Michael Weghorn 2025-09-18 12:21:46 UTC
Thanks for the bug report!

This was initially reported on the a11y mailing list: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/accessibility/msg01265.html

As mentioned there, I can reproduce, using PAC 2024.4.3 beta 2.
(I explicitly tested the case of slide 4, graphic as background.)

Version: 26.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 412c0391b56419bea6b0ff7c949ef2ced59a4d6b
CPU threads: 32; OS: Linux 6.16; UI render: default; VCL: qt6 (cairo+wayland)
Locale: en-GB (en_GB.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded