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Re: Emphasized Text in PDFs

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From: David Ashleydale
Date: Oct 22, 2013 1:34PM

Hi Lucy,

I know that screen readers and other AT don't announce emphasized text by
default, but I believe there are ways to investigate it if you want. But
this only works if strong or em are used as opposed to b or i in HTML, I
believe. I was just trying to find out if PDF authors need to do anything
special to emphasized words in order for AT users to be able to investigate
it if they want.

Thanks,
David

On Tuesday, October 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
>
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> 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
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