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Re: Query on heading hierarchy

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From: glen walker
Date: Mar 23, 2018 9:56AM

I agree, Karen. But just so it's not a gray rainy day, I also get cases
where clients want to do the right thing and really make it accessible and
usable. They want to be educated to understand the real principal (not
just the principles, so to speak) behind making things accessible. (Silent
cheers in my head when that happens :-)) In your PDF example, the client
would want to know the right tags to use. They'd want to know the right
headings to use.


On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 8:46 AM, Karlen Communications <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> That may be the true issue. Is accessibility just checking a box that says
> everything has Tags/markup and therefore is good to go or does
> accessibility include education and training on accessible document design?
> And remediating documents to provide structure and navigation.
>
> When I look at a PDF document with Tags, do I just say, OK, it has Tags,
> we're good to go? I can add the PDF/UA identifier because technically it
> does have Tags and since PDF/UA is a technical standard, not a content
> standard, it really has nothing to do with my job as a remediator to ensure
> the content is accessible.
>
> This would save a lot of time in that we wouldn't have to remediate any
> website or document to be "accessible" and we wouldn't need to purchase any
> expensive tools to help us do that...we just accept the garbage as the will
> and intent of the document author and push it out the door.
>
> This seems to be where we are rapidly headed.
>
> Cheers, Karen
>
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