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Proper nesting of <Form> tags in PDF's? (Further clarification)

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From: Diana Grappasonno
Date: Oct 30, 2019 2:57PM

Thanks to all who replied to my message! I have some huge forms to
remediate and I want to be sure I get this right. One more follow-up
question that I'm struggling with:

What is the correct placement of tagged form elements in PDF's?

CommonLook says to place the annotation (associated text?) inside the Form
tag. The Adobe Accessibility Series says to nest the Form tags inside the
<P> tag with the associated text. And a comment on an Acrobat Users group
says to put the Form tag next to the <P> (not nested).

I think (maybe) this is what CommonLook says to do:

<P>

Unrelated text before form element

<Form>

Name text

Name - OBJR


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This is what Adobe says to do:

<P>

Name text
<Form>

Name - OBJR

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This is what poston user group says to do:

<P>

Name text
<Form>

Name - OBJR



Thanks very much in advance!
Diana G