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From: Alan Zaitchik
Date: Jun 7, 2017 10:18AM

I am working on a monthly newsletter that has a standard banner (banner
image and title- apart from the date it never changes) followed by 4
'articles'.

I reworked the tags so that they are in the correct order with the correct
semantic structures (I believe).
But I have 2 questions.
1. The Acrobat Reading order tool jumps around with little regard (it
seems) for my reordering and restructuring the tabs, even though I set my
'Preferences' for reading order to 'Infer from document structure'. Is
this bogus? Need I be concerned? When I use the tool to reorder it screws
up the tags!
2. I did indeed create 4 <article> sections but was unsure whether I
should group the banner elements in some section or just list them as
direct children of <document> ahead of the first <article>. My concern
here is to use only well-supported HTML5 tags that will work with JAWS and
other screen readers. Is the following structure OK?
<Document>
<Figure>
<H1>
<P>
<Article>
<Article>

<Article>

<Article>


As always your advice is MOST appreciated!
A


Alan Zaitchik

Center For Social Innovation
200 Reservoir Street, Suite 202
Needham, Massachusetts 02494
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