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From: Karlen Communications
Date: May 18, 2012 8:12AM

It sounds like a font issue. This font is known to cause this type of
problems. It can be repaired in Acrobat by adding Actual Text to the <H1>
Tag. However, you might then get an accessibility error indicating that
there is alternative text that will not be read by adaptive technology.
Sometimes you'll get this message and sometimes you won't. It is because
you've added the attribute to something other than a <Figure> Tag.

The type of font you used is not a "standard" font and is sort of a hybrid
for lack of better phrasing.

Cheers, Karen

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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Tony Olivero
Sent: May-18-12 9:53 AM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: [WebAIM] PDF Header Questions

Hello:



Does anyone have any thoughts on why an H1 (created in the word source file)
would appear to a screenreader to span multiple lines broken across
characters? When I read it with JAWS, it's basically sounding like:



"Heading 1 in word: This is a heading 1.



In the PDF:

T

H

I

S



I

S

A heading 1



The source style is Ariel Narrow, 24pt, all caps



Thanks for any input.



Tony

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