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From: Chagnon | PubCom
Date: Oct 22, 2013 5:14PM


At this time, PDFs do not support character tags such as <em> and <strong>,
so no, authors don't need to do anything.
They might in the future, and AT might support also them in PDFs.

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-----Original Message-----

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