Adobe InDesign CC 2015 - Manual (Page 387)

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Interactivity
Last updated 6/6/2015
1 Place a frame at the location where you want to place the form field.
2 Open the Buttons and Forms panel (Windows > Interactive > Buttons and Forms).
3 Select the frame and from the Type list choose a form element type. Alternatively, right-click a frame and choose
Interactive > Convert to [...]
4 Enter a name for the form field. To create a radio button group, all the individual buttons must have the same name.
5 Choose an event and add actions to associate with it. Actions such as Clear Form, Print Form, and Submit Form
have been added. In the Submit Form action specify the URL as "mailto:[email protected].
6 For a radio button, check box, or buttons: set appearance attributes for different states. InDesign adds default
graphics for the various states, but you can add your own.
7 Specify PDF options:
• Description - Entered value is displayed as the tool tip and is used for creating accessible forms
• Button Value - this value corresponds to the export value in Acrobat and can also be used to identify a radio
button in a group in a accessible form.
Specify tab order
To create user friendly and accessible forms, it is necessary to assign a usable tab order. Users can navigate through the
form fields without using a pointing device. Pressing the Tab key shifts the focus to the next logical field.
There are two methods of specifying a tab order in a tagged PDF:
• Use the Articles panel (Windows > Article) to specify a custom tab order
• Choose Object > Interactive > Set Tab Order.