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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Sep 29, 2015 8:09AM

Bevi,
At least with Adobe Reader, Part, Article, Section, Division, and Document tags are exposed for assistive technology to have access to. I do not believe that any AT does anything with this information currently, but that isn't to say that they couldn't.

Thanks,
AWK

Andrew Kirkpatrick
Group Product Manager, Accessibility
Adobe Systems

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On 9/28/15, 22:29, "WebAIM-Forum on behalf of Chagnon | PubCom.com" < <EMAIL REMOVED> on behalf of <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

>Thanks Ryan. You're confirming my opinion.
>And thanks for catching <Document> rather than <DOC>. Sometimes I get my various tagging languages/syntax flipped.
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>But to clarify my earlier question:
>Do these various container tags -- <DOCUMENT>, <PART>, <ART>, <SECT>, and <DIV> -- have any affect on screen readers and other AT?
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>They are the container tags specified in the PDF 2008 standard tag set. In my experience, we haven't noticed any screen readers acknowledging them in a document, nor stumbling over them either.
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>Do they cause problems for AT?
>Do they provide any benefits for AT users?
>
>--Bevi Chagnon
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