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Re: A case for artifacting bullets in unordered lists in PDFs

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From: Sailesh Panchang
Date: Jul 23, 2013 9:34AM

My understanding is that tagging the bullet as li_label and the text
of the list item as li_title gets JAWS to announce the bullet as a
bullet.
In an ordered list the number is tagged as the label.
Sailesh

On 7/23/13, Jonathan Metz < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Hmm, interesting.
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> How do you interpret lists in PDFs that are not bulleted or numbered
> lists, say a dictionary list.
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> What would happen if AT all of a sudden changed the way it handles
> unordered lists in the future? Wouldn’t that workaround create a problem
> in the future?
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> Thanks for your input!
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> Jon
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> On 7/23/13 10:45 AM, "McMorland, Gabriel" < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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>>I strongly agree with Priti. I am a blind screen reader user and the
>>bullets are helpful. They convey meaning.
>>I like Priti's suggestion for labeling bullets so they don't just read as
>>"graphic" when the screen reader encoutners them.
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