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Re: Lists without labels in PDFs

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From: Duff Johnson
Date: Sep 13, 2018 2:06PM

> IIRC from memory, PDF/UA-1 does not require the LBL tag on list items. Only
> the LBody tag.

PDF/UA-1 only requires <Lbl> tags if there a label is present.

If the list-items do not include labels, there's nothing to tag with <Lbl>, so such elements are not required.

> The best solution needs to be:
>
> -- That the ISO PDF/UA committee address non-bulleted and non-numbered lists
> in a forthcoming standard. Not all lists have bullets or numbers!

As above, this is already addressed in PDF/UA-1. If there's no label, there's nothing to tag with a <Lbl> element.

> -- That software authoring tools such as MS Word and Adobe InDesign allow
> authors to style lists as lists but without numbers or bullets or LBL tags.
> -- And, of course, that assistive technologies correctly interpret this new
> tagged format.

Yes. There is no substitute for actually implementing the specification.

Duff.