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Re: PDF line breaks and reading flow with screen readers

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From: Karlen Communications
Date: Jul 7, 2016 5:42AM

If all the lines of a paragraph are contained within one <P> or Paragraph Tag, the content is read as a single paragraph with no pauses at the end of each line. You only get the normal pauses at the end of each sentence. I use a screen reader and if the paragraph is tagged correctly as I've indicated, there is no pause at the end of the visual line break. You only get that pause if the paragraph has each line individually tagged as a <P> Tag.

This needs to be remediated so that all of the lines of the paragraph are moved under one <P> or Paragraph Tag.

So it is not the screen readers, it is the way the document has been tagged.

Cheers, Karen