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From: Jennifer Sutton
Date: Apr 4, 2013 3:15PM

In my view, blank pages should be left in. What if I'm using this
book for research, and I need to cite page numbers?

Sometimes, I think that catering for AT can be taken to extremes. AT
users should know how to read these files and expect potentially
blank pages, just as these exist in printed, brailled, or other
electronic books. If you have low vision users who are initially
confused, then I would hope they have the AT strategies to unconfuse
themselves by paging down to see what comes next.

Jennifer

At 01:33 PM 4/4/2013, you wrote:
>What prompted my question was that when testing PDFs with blind and
>low-vision users, some page up/down by page. If I remember correctly, these
>were probably low-vision users.
>
>Navigating to, say, page 4 and not finding any text on it, would that be an
>impairment to the user?
>Would it cause confusion if the user's AT couldn't find any content on that
>page?
>
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