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From: Steve Faulkner
Date: Nov 3, 2011 8:48AM

hi Birkir,

This WCAG 2.0 PDF techniques document may be of use: Using table elements
for table markup in PDF Documents
http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20-TECHS/pdf.html#PDF6


regards
SteveF

On 3 November 2011 06:54, Birkir R. Gunnarsson
< <EMAIL REMOVED> >wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
> >