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Re: PDF tables that span pages / repeating header rows / AT

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Jun 12, 2017 7:01AM

> I assume my settings on JAWS or Acrobat are not correct, because why would this be recommended if the header cells on previous pages are not being announced by screen readers?

The setting in Acrobat to present the document as a single page or whole document to the screen reader can affect this. If only the single page is presented to the accessibility tree the screen reader can't get the headers from the other pages. Generally you want to have the whole document presented to AT unless the document is so large it causes sluggishness with the AT. There is a setting in Acrobat for this which has a default threshold of 50 pages.

Jonathan

Jonathan Avila
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