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From: Peter Shikli
Date: May 14, 2019 8:31PM

When remediating PDFs, we're always looking to migrate up the food chain
to the source document, often an MS Word or Excel template. In this
case, we have a PDF table generated as a report from Microsoft's SQL
Server Database. Much better than remediating the PDFs, which are
generated regularly with current data, would be to instruct SQL Server
to add the accessibility tags to the report tables, such as header
tags.  We have experience building transactional applications using PHP
that source SQL Server data, but not with a focus on accessibility.

Has anyone come across reusable report instructions, or at least
guidelines, to generate accessible SQL Server reports, or have ideas
where to look?  Google seems curiously silent on the subject.

Cheers,
Peter Shikli
Access2online