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From: Chagnon | PubCom
Date: Jun 11, 2013 9:41AM

There are quite a few items that can be corrected in TURO, not just the
reading order.

For example, it's one of the easiest ways to select an element and set it to
artifact/background. Or grab and tag a graphic or other element that wasn't
exported correctly from Word by the PDF Maker plug-in (especially for
wrapped graphics and anchored text boxes which always get left out during
PDF conversion). Or grab and tag information in a repeating footer that
needs to be voiced at least once for the reader (just had to do this for
govt docs with critical security info in the footer).

I've found that fixing the RO first often clears up some of the tag problems
and there's less stuff to fix in the tag tree/structure. Our process:
1) clean up reading order.
2) clean up tag tree/structure.
3) clean up content order (which usually needs very little adjusting by this
point).

TX Knight wrote: "2. Also when I moved a tag, the text of the corresponding
figure would
go blank. The undo feature never seems to fix this problem, so if I don't
save very frequently, I risk losing much of the progress I made."

Yes, that happens in the RO panel. Adjusting the sequence in the panel often
causes one element to become hidden behind another. Solution: find the
hidden item in the RO's panel on the left, and drag-and-drop it before the
item that's hiding it. This is a stacking order problem so you must change
what's in front, what's behind. In some documents the stacking order in RO
won't be ideal, but RO isn't as important for today's AT as it once was and
the change in sequence usually doesn't affect comprehension much.

-Bevi Chagnon
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