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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Jun 6, 2016 9:25AM

> Personally i have given up on the Articles Panel years ago.

I've also had better results with the structure tree. In order for the articles Panel to work correctly all the content needs to be there and then it just doesn't seem to be as granular as I'd like. Perhaps for very simple documents it's ok -- but for anything large it really only helps you understand the reading order. Of course even with the structure tree, expect for some elements InDesign to do whatever it wants regardless of what you put in there.

Jonathan

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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Ryan E. Benson
Sent: Monday, June 06, 2016 11:10 AM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] WAI documents Re: PDFs: Logical Reading Order and Tags

Personally i have given up on the Articles Panel years ago. I found that if I had the help file open, it worked moderately well. Trying again a short time later, I usually ended up with failure. However using the Structure panel, which seems to be frowned upon now, I can get reliable results every time.

Ryan

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> On Jun 3, 2016, at 09:51, Chagnon | PubCom < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> You can use InDesign's articles panel to sequence text and graphic frames into an order of some sorts, but it only works on very short documents.
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> If you have a document longer than 1 page where one text thread continues onto successive pages, the Articles panel won't be much help because of how that panel sequences the items in it.
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> Example: My main story thread stretches across 10 pages and I put it in the Articles Panel. Then, if I add a sidebar on page 2 and add it to the Articles Panel, InDesign places the sidebar after the entire main story thread, that is, after page 10 is voiced out.
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> There are better ways to achieve the correct reading from InDesign. The Articles Panel can be helpful for short documents--very short documents. But for most normal projects done in InDesign, it's not useful at all. I teach my students and clients when it's useful, and then to not bother with it at all for other projects.
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> --Bevi Chagnon
> PubCom.com
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> Behalf Of Sophie Schuermans
> Sent: Friday, June 3, 2016 3:22 AM
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> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] WAI documents Re: PDFs: Logical Reading Order
> and Tags
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> Hi,
>
> To obtain a logical reading order, your tags need to be in the right order.
> To achieve that you can use the article pane in Indesign. This is described in this white paper and works fine:
> http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/products/indesign/pdfs/indes
> ign-cs55-accessibility-whitepaper.pdf
> Look for 'Establish a reading order with the Articles panel'.
> This document also explains how to map the paragraph styles to PDF tags (look for 'Add Export Tagging').
>
> Best regards,
>
> Sophie
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