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Re: PDF forms: all form field-related information read out twice

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Jun 24, 2014 6:09AM

[Olaf wrote] . Also please keep in mind that when thinking of assistive
technology not to always only think of screen readers.

Agreed, we had a vendor try to artifact this text which made me
uncomfortable as that seems like a PDF/UA violation in addition to an AT
issue. In testing I found that ZoomText's text-to-speech tools did not
read the artifact text and this would be an issue as you mention.

Jonathan