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Re: microscopic numbers on headings, links in PDFs

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From: Ryan E. Benson
Date: May 16, 2013 3:31PM

Does the document have a Table of Contents generated by Word's TOC
generator by chance?

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Ryan E. Benson


On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Andrew Kirkpatrick < <EMAIL REMOVED> >wrote:

> Weird. Can you email me an example?
>
> Thanks,
> AWK
>
> Andrew Kirkpatrick
> Group Product Manager, Accessibility
> Adobe Systems
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 12:01 AM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List
> 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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