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From: Chagnon | PubCom
Date: Feb 18, 2015 3:48PM

Lisa,
Here's an excellent example of a flawed tag tree reading order, which then
creates an out-of-whack structure.
Surprisingly, it's from the US Access Board itself:
http://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=ATBCB-2015-0002-0001 (view the
Content section and look for the PDF there).
This is the text of the new ICT draft for Sec. 508. You'll notice in the tag
tree that the figures are all stacked at the top of the tag tree...yet they
appear in the back portion of the draft on pages 186-192.
This error creates the following reading order:
1. The agency's seal/logo on page 1.
2. 9 illustrations on pages 186 through 192.
3. The title of the document (tagged with a P tag) on page 1.
4. The remaining pages of the document.
This error is because they used an older version of MS Word, which does this
to all graphics...stacks them at the top of the tag tree, or at the end of
the tag tree, or anywhere it feels like it throughout the entire
document...regardless of how someone anchors the graphics in the Word
document itself. Word 2013, on the other hand, doesn't make this error and
places the graphics correctly in the PDF tag tree.
It also doesn't help that they used Acrobat 10 to create the PDF from Word.
--Bevi