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Re: Tagging issues with Acrobat Pro DC

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From: Larry Jones
Date: Apr 12, 2019 4:38PM

Thank you everyone.

We work with people who use older technology, braille especially We are
relatively new to adobe, and all the levels are very complexing. Now we
understand them better,

Larry

On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 4:39 PM Jonathan Avila < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
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> > I am new to the list. I was told the acrobat order panel was connected
> to Braille output. Is this so?
>
> One guess is that the person was saying if you emboss a PDF or save to
> text the content order will be used over the tags order.
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> I am new to the list. I was told the acrobat order panel was connected to
> Braille output. Is this so?
>
> We have found changes needed to this order with images. Did we do the wrong
> thing and should change in the content panel?
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> Larry
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> From: Karlen Communications < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> Date: Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 8:41 AM
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Tagging issues with Acrobat Pro DC
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> It wasn't a matter of the text being mixed up in the PathPath's but that
> the
> auto tagging tool in Acrobat seemed to reverse itself and consider the
> Artifacts as needing Tags and the text as Artifacts. I started going
> through
> the Content Panel but found that I was making everything an Artifact and
> had
> no text at the end of the task...I would have had to manually tag all of
> the
> text.
>
> I never use the Order Panel unless I think that content/text has not been
> tagged. I use it as sort of a satellite view of the document but focus on
> the Tags Tree and the Content Panel if necessary.
>
> I agree about teaching the Content Panel, but in working through an
> exercise
> with my class in accessible media design, we all had the same document, the
> same version of Acrobat Pro DC and some students got table gridlines tagged
> as <Span>, <Figure> or just floating in the tags Tree with no apparent
> Tag...sometimes the opportunity for learning lands in front of you,
> especially when working on assignments for marks!
>
> Cheers, Karen
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