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Re: Reading upper-level Unicode glyphs in PDF

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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Sep 7, 2009 9:10PM

Bev,
The characters you mention are almost certainly not supported by screen readers, no matter the format. Have you tried putting the characters into an HTML or Word document and hearing how they are spoken there? I'm betting you get similar results.

For character-level tags for emphasis and strong, I'm not sure why the tags are not coming through, but usually this information is carried in the accessibility data for text in a PDF outside of the tags. The question really should be "is the emphasis or bold treatment of my text exposed to assistive technologies in the PDF file". I'd need to see it to tell you...

Thanks,
AWK

Andrew Kirkpatrick

Senior Product Manager, Accessibility

Adobe Systems

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