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From: Dona Patrick
Date: Jan 19, 2010 7:18PM

Andrew,

When I downloaded the file (save file as) onto my computer and opened it
with Acrobat 9 professional it looked like it had tags as well -- not very
useful tags, but tags nonetheless. I went through about 10 pages and tagged
it -- it's pretty straightforward, if I'm doing it correctly.

Here is the link I used:
http://www.usa.gov/webcontent/documents/ssa/SSA_Guide_to_Accessible_PDF_Documents_and_Forms.pdf#4

I didn't realize that Acrobat and reader added tags automatically but
weren't permanent etc. There is a lot out there about Acrobat that is not
well known. Can you talk more about that, Andrew?

I'm co-presenting a talk about PDFs & accessibility on Saturday and am going
to mention this discussion.

Dona
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http://accessdp.wordpress.org

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Andrew Kirkpatrick < <EMAIL REMOVED> >wrote:

> No, unless I'm looking at a different document, it isn't tagged. Acrobat
> and Reader will add tags automatically, but they are not permanent and will
> lack image equivalents and likely have inconsistent semantics.
>
> Steve, what URL are you using that you're seeing a tagged file?
>
> Thanks,
> AWK
>
> Andrew Kirkpatrick
>
> Senior Product Manager, Accessibility
>
> Adobe Systems
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> <EMAIL REMOVED>
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