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Re: HHS font-families like Wingdings, Symbol

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From: Ryan E. Benson
Date: Jan 22, 2018 10:27AM

Alan,.

The recommended fonts are to have the most accessibility for people with
learning disabilities and use font magnification.It is also imposed to help
prevent using wingdings and such for artistic flare, like to denote a
heading. Using wingdings and such for bullets is totally fine for HHS. In
PDF, you should wrap the bullet in the <Lbl> tag.


Source: I work on the creation of the checklists. I saw you asked a few
questions re:HHS over the holidays, but didn't have good internet access at
that time.

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Ryan E. Benson

On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 11:54 AM, Alan Zaitchik < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> Does anyone have direct experience with PDF documents that use "fancy"
> bullet labels in the Windings or Symbol or any other font outside the
> narrow list of HHS-recommended fonts (https://www.hhs.gov/web/
> section-508/making-files-accessible/checklist/pdf/index.html) ? Coming
> from Word sometimes we have no easy control over the bullet character.
>
>
>
> What I am asking is
>
> 1. Whether screen readers such as JAWS or NVDA have any problem
> recognizing the list item label for what it is, and (assuming they do not)
> 2. Whether anyone has been told that it is impermissible to use such a
> font in this sort of case.
>
> Ultimately, I know, the funder will have to be satisfied that HHS is
> satisfied, but I am curious nonetheless whether this has actually been an
> issue encountered by members of this community.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alan
> > > > >