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From: L Snider
Date: Feb 19, 2015 6:23AM

That is a very good example, thanks. I have a few of my own, but can't use
them in public-so this is perfect!

Yes, I have found the newest version of Word to be much better, 2003 was
messy...at least some progress is being made.

Thanks again!

Lisa

On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 4:48 PM, Chagnon | PubCom < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> 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
>
>