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From: William O'Donnell
Date: Sep 27, 2019 2:55PM

Forgot about Read Out Loud, good points.
Have a good day.


On 9/27/19, Karlen Communications < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> NEVER use Read Out Loud to do testing for accessibility...or at all!
>
> The best approach is to walk down the Tags Tree to perform three parts of a
> quality assurance process:
>
> 1. Is everything in the document that needs a tag have a tag?
> 2. Are the tags correct for the type of content (headings, lists,
> paragraphs, tables and so forth).
> 3. Are the Tags in a logical reading order for the content/type of
> document.
>
> Additionally, if the document was scanned and needed OCR, you want to use a
> screen reader like JAWS or NVDA to make sure that there are spaces between
> words and that words don't have spaces between characters.
>
> Cheers, Karen
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of
> Ramshif Richu
> Sent: Friday, September 27, 2019 9:31 AM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Thoughts on PDF Accessibility
>
> Thanks for the reply. But I am trying to understand in a testing
> perspective, I assume there would be certain things which we shouldn't test
> or avoid when testing PDF Accessibility, I would like to know what are
> those
> areas, kind of limitations and or things that should be avoided when
> testing
> PDF Accessibility.
>
> Thanks.
>
> On Fri, 27 Sep 2019, 6:41 pm , < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
>> For starters, PDF accessibility is defined by the ISO 14289-1
>> (PDF/UA-1) standards so a review of them would be essential.
>>
>> As yet, there isn't an official how-to guide from the PDF/UA committee
>> (or any other authoritative entity) on the steps to make a PDF
>> accessible or how to check a PDF for compliance or what to check.
>>
>> However, the PDF Association released a syntax guide that can be helpful.
>> It's designed for programmers who write software that creates PDFs,
>> not for content creators and remediators, but if you glean through the
>> programming blah blah you'll find quite a bit of useful information on
>> how a complaint PDF should be tagged.
>>
>> Download a copy from the PDF Association's website,
>> https://www.pdfa.org/resource/tagged-pdf-best-practice-guide-syntax/
>>
>> We have a 12-point checklist for content creators and remediators to
>> check the major accessibility points of PDFs at
>> https://www.pubcom.com/books/bevi_cheatsheet/cheatsheet-accessdocs.sht
>> ml There are many more nuances involved, but these are the big ones.
>>
>> HHS has a good checklist at
>>
>> https://www.hhs.gov/web/section-508/making-files-accessible/checklist/
>> pdf/in
>> dex.html
>> <https://www.hhs.gov/web/section-508/making-files-accessible/checklist
>> /pdf/index.html>
>>
>> --Bevi Chagnon
>> (US delegate to the PDF/UA ISO standards committee and member of the
>> PDF
>> Association)
>>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of
>> Ramshif Richu
>> Sent: Friday, September 27, 2019 12:50 AM
>> To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
>> Subject: [WebAIM] Thoughts on PDF Accessibility
>>
>> Hi all, was just wondering when going through PDF accessibility..
>> there has been so many ways and techniques that should make the PDF
>> accessible, as a newbie, would like to know what not to test when
>> testing PDF accessibility? anyone has any thoughts on 'What's not to
>> test when testing PDF documents'.
>> Any though will be appreciated.
>>
>> >> >> archives at http://webaim.org/discussion/archives
>> >>
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