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From: Gijs Veyfeyken
Date: Jul 7, 2016 5:13AM

Hi,

Screenreaders (NVDA, Jaws) add a stop after every visual line of text in a properly tagged PDF.
In InDesign, the width of the text frame determines the visual width of the lines and therefore the breaks.
But semantically (tag-wise), it's one paragraph. The stops are confusing and break the flow while reading.
Is there anyway to avoid this as an author of a PDF in InDesign? Or is this up to the screenreader, should I file a bug of feature request?

Thanks,

Gijs

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Gijs Veyfeyken
AnySurfer - towards an accessible internet
http://www.anysurfer.be/en
Brussels - Belgium