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Re: Who benefits of PDF tags aside from screen reader users?

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From: Alastair Campbell
Date: Sep 9, 2013 2:26AM

Duff Johnson wrote:

> - Some who do not think of themselves as "AT users" nonetheless prefer to
> read a PDF in a "reflowed" fashion; i.e., all in the single column, with
> text fonts and text size they can control, etc.
>

Are there some rules for when this applies? I've found you can re-flow text
on our documents fine, but some (notably forms that started off in
InDesign) will simply refuse to reflow.

I've not had enough test-cases to see whether it's the form the layout
aspects that trigger the refusal, I was wondering if there's a simple
answer for that?

-Alastair