WebAIM - Web Accessibility In Mind

E-mail List Archives

Re: PDF files and marking up data tables for screen reader users

for

From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Nov 3, 2011 7:54AM

Andrew

Would you have a sample, properly makrd up table, PDF document for me
to test out?
Can you point to a specific website/chapter on marking up tables
accessibly with Acrobat Pro?
If not, I'll just point to your website ado.com/accessibility, or do
some digging around.
Thank you
-Birkir

On 11/3/11, Andrew Kirkpatrick < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Birkir,
> You can make tables in PDF documents include all of the expected table
> objects, it doesn't matter whether the document comes from Word, PowerPoint,
> other applications, or a scanner even. However, there is a difference in
> the ease of authoring. Powerpoint will give you table tags in the resulting
> PDF if the standard table object is used, but not headings, which you would
> need to apply after the pdf is produced. Word can give you the TH tags, but
> if you create a more complex table from word you may need to add the
> headers/id or scope information in that PDF.
>
> Thanks,
> AWK
>
> Andrew Kirkpatrick
> Group Product Manager, Accessibility
> Adobe Systems
>
> <EMAIL REMOVED>
> http://twitter.com/awkawk
> http://blogs.adobe.com/accessibility
>
>
>