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From: Langum, Michael J
Date: Feb 22, 2011 8:03AM

I have been asked to post a legal transcript. It has line numbers along the left side of that page. These were added using MS Word's "line number" tool, and they were converted to artifacts when the document was converted to PDF.

My question is, since the line number artifacts will not be exposed to the screen reader, should this be considered accessible? If not, the only alternative I can think of is to manually re-write the WORD source document as a two column table.

-- Mike