WebAIM - Web Accessibility In Mind

E-mail List Archives

Re: Emphasized Text in PDFs

for

From: Patrick Burke
Date: Oct 22, 2013 1:34PM

I will amend Lucy's comment slightly.:

Jaws can query the status of the current character (probably NVDA &
Voiceover can also, though I can't test them now). JawsKey+F tells
you the font, plus any emphasis info. So *if* you think "Hey this is
a short paragraph. I wonder if it's a bolded heading?", you have a
way to find out. But you will *not* be told about it by default.

Patrick

At 12:12 PM 10/22/2013, Lucy Greco wrote:
>Hello:
> Even though the html supports the strong and ... screen readers and or
>other AT do not recognize it in any way and it never comes over to us.
>
>Lucia Greco
>Web Access Analyst
>IST-Campus Technology Services
>University of California, Berkeley
>(510) 289-6008 skype: lucia1-greco
>http://webaccess.berkeley.edu
>Follow me on twitter @accessaces
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: <EMAIL REMOVED>
>[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of David
>Ashleydale
>Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 12:09 PM
>To: WebAIM Discussion List
>Subject: [WebAIM] Emphasized Text in PDFs
>
>I've been doing some research trying to figure out if there's anything
>additional that PDF authors need to do in order to expose bold or
>italicized text to assistive technology users. I specifically mean text
>that is meant to be emphasized.
>
>I'm coming up with blanks. It's looking to me like PDFs are different from
>HTML in this regard in that in HTML, page authors are expected to use
><strong> and <em> instead of <b> and <i>. I was expecting to find that PDF
>authors are supposed to add an emphasis "tag" or attribute to emphasized
>words, but I'm finding no such thing.
>
>Is it true that if text in a PDF is bold or italicized for emphasis, there
>is nothing additional that the PDF author needs to do using Acrobat Pro?
>No additional tags, attributes, etc.?
>
>Thanks,
>David
>>>messages to <EMAIL REMOVED>
>>>--
Patrick J. Burke

Coordinator
UCLA Disabilities &
Computing Program

Phone: 310 206-6004
E-mail: <EMAIL REMOVED>
Location: 4909 Math Science


Department Contact: <EMAIL REMOVED>