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Re: WAI documents PDFs: Logical Reading Order and Tags

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From: Chaals McCathie Nevile
Date: Jun 1, 2016 11:02AM

On Wed, 01 Jun 2016 15:20:09 +0200, Duff Johnson < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

>> How important is it that the tags themselves be (1) rearranged to match
>> the logical reading order
>
> Critical. Contra the erroneous advice offered in WAI's PDF Technique 3,
> there is no accessibility without structure elements (tags) in correct
> logical reading order.
>
> (Sidenote: the errors in the PDF3 technique are one of the most serious
> causes of confusion worldwide on this subject.)

Have you filed a bug on that? If so, can you point to it so people can
follow it up.

If not, I'd be really happy to help do so…

cheers

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