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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: May 16, 2013 2:35PM

Weird. Can you email me an example?

Thanks,
AWK

Andrew Kirkpatrick
Group Product Manager, Accessibility
Adobe Systems

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Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 12:01 AM
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Subject: [WebAIM] microscopic numbers on headings, links in PDFs

A couple of weeks ago, converting Word to PDF added microscopic numbers in front of all the headings and hyperlinks in the documents. Looks like a micro-dot to the naked eye, but when zoomed in, you can see 0B, 1B, 2B, etc.

Can't figure out what is causing them to be generated during the conversion from Word 2010/Windows to PDF, and can't seem to find anything online either.

It's affecting accessibility because they are voiced.

Example: the heading is "Using Custom Areas" and the conversion puts "1B" in front of it. This is voiced as "1 busing custom areas."

Any Acrobat gurus out there know what's causing this? I've reset my PDF conversion settings to default in hopes it would clear out any hidden settings I did, but that isn't solving the problem.

Thanks,

-Bevi Chagnon

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