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Re: Tagging PDF Files / Adobe Acrobat 5.0

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From: Jon Abolins
Date: Jul 10, 2002 8:01AM

I haven't used the plug-in myself but the description of the listed
items quirk reminds me of something I've encountered with Microsoft
Word's HTML conversions. Very often the documents I get for conversion
for Web formats yeild inaccurate renditions of ordered and unordered
lists.

I believe it is caused by something in how the author of hte original
documetn writes and edits the document. Then Word embeds codes that will
result in inaccurate HTML translation but appear fine in Word itself.

By any chance, mzwack, were the PDF documents created from a Word
document?

Thank you.

Jon Abolins

>>> <EMAIL REMOVED> 07/09/02 04:12PM >>>
[...]
For example, when we use the Make Accessible Plug-in -- It does a good
job
-- very little clean-up is required. However, we have noticed the
tagging is
not necessarily accurate. As in the case of listed items -- the tag may
be a
<P> tag rather than a <LI> tag. Some times, one paragraph is broken
apart as
seperate elements -- line by line -- rather than grouping the entire
paragraph element together. Despite all of this, the PDFs are working
great
in Jaws. But, should we try to get all the tags to be accurate even
though
it doesn't seem to affect the Jaws reader?
<snip>


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