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From: Philip Kiff
Date: Sep 13, 2018 2:30PM

On 2018-09-13 3:37 PM, Alan Zaitchik wrote:
> I could forget about the list structure altogether and tag each item as a <P>, but these are semantically lists, and I imagine a screen reader user would welcome hearing something like "References heading level 2, list of 10 items" or its ilk, even if the screen reader burped on the fact that no list labels are present. Would (recent) releases of Jaws and NVDA handle this acceptably?

Neither JAWS nor NVDA need to have list label <Lbl> tags present to read
a list smoothly in a PDF. When reading "line-by-line" using cursor keys,
JAWS inserts a pause between each <Lbl> and <LBody> tag requiring a new
keypress each time. In a list with no <Lbl> tags present, it just pauses
between one <LBody> and the next. If I recall correctly, NVDA handles
this better by reading the <Lbl> content without pausing in most cases,
thereby saving the user from having to keep clicking on the cursor at
each appearance of a bullet.

Phil.

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Philip Kiff
D4K Communications