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From: ckrugman@sbcglobal.net
Date: Jan 20, 2010 2:03AM

I'm a bit confused as I downloaded this file and JAWS 11 read it without any
difficulty. There were times when tables were read as "Start of Table" and
"End of "Table" but i'm not sure if there was anything in the table as
nothing was read.
Chuck
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From: "Dona Patrick" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 6:16 PM
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] PDF Accessibility


> 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
> cedarwaxwing on twitter
> 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
>>
>> <EMAIL REMOVED>
>>
>>
>>
>