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Re: Artifacting visual labels in PDF forms

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From: Karlen Communications
Date: Mar 12, 2019 9:39AM

I agree. We have to be able to read the text of a form, not just have access
to the form controls. Failing to tag the text/labels or any other text on a
form would fail the form for accessibility.

I've also seen instances where the text of a form including headings and
informative/instructional text has been "tagged" as a read only form control
thus forcing us to read everything on a form and preventing us from really
distinguishing the text/instructions from the form fields we need to fill
out. Also a failure in terms of accessibility.

Cheers, Karen