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From: Duff Johnson
Date: Apr 4, 2013 2:14PM

Bevi,

I'm not aware of guidelines on this specific point. Zero content means zero content.

PDF/UA is silent on this question. Fully blank (zero content) pages exist from an AT point of view only in the sense that they cause the PDF to be longer by a page. When such a page is displayed a user could query the PageLabel to find out (for example) that the blank page was the 4th of 18. This is notionally useful information - at least - it's equivalent information to that which is available to other users.

I hope that helps.

Duff.

On Apr 4, 2013, at 3:19 PM, Chagnon | PubCom < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> We're processing some PDFs for a government client and the books have blank
> pages between chapters. These are to force new chapters to start on
> right-hand pages in the printed version.
>
> Is there any guideline or "best practice" for identifying these blank pages
> to blind readers?
>
> Or is this a non-issue?
>
> -Bevi Chagnon