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From: Donna Anspach
Date: Feb 21, 2019 8:32AM

Hi Laurie,

Adobe just did an accessibility webinar on tables. You can access it here:

https://adobe.ly/2TJUMcb

Look for Advanced PDF Accessibility Complex Tables. There are other
sessions that may be helpful to you as well.

Hope this helps.
Donna

On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 11:28 AM Laurie Kamrowski-Lamb < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> I'm new to the forum, and I work for a small community college and have
> been tasked with updating all previous PDFs created by the school for
> accessibility. I am working with the table editor in Adobe Acrobat DC Pro
> Continuous Release, on a Windows 10 machine. I am using
> NVDA to check everything.
>
> The majority of the project is that:
>
> 1) I can only work with Metadata
> 2) I cannot alter or change anything because these particular PDFs are the
> official meeting minutes of the board of directors
>
> The biggest problem that I am encountering are multi-level deep complex
> tables (I have an example image if anyone wants to look but wasn't sure
> about attaching it directly to the list serv) that are financial in nature.
> In addition to other things such as power point and 'Statements of
> revenues and expenses', etc..
>
> So here are my questions:
>
> 1) How reliable is the accessibility check in Adobe Acrobat? I have been
> having multiple crashes a day when I work with the larger tables.
>
> 2) Is there a way to manually encode the tables metadata? I am having
> multiple issues where, for an unknown reason, the tables are either
> skipping lines or occupying two or three rows, with no rhyme or reason. Is
> there a different program to be able to encode these tables or is there a
> way to manually encode these?
>
> Any and all input or advice is more than welcome and appreciated,
>
> Laurie
> > > > >
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Donna Anspach
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