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

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From: Karlen Communications
Date: Oct 30, 2019 3:46PM

I've always nested the <Form> Tag in the <P> Tag with the question it is
associated with. That way, as I do my QA, I can tell that both the question
and <Form> Tag are together in their logical reading order.

<P>
Question text
<Form>

Or
<P>
Question Text
Yes
<Form> (Radio button for Yes button)
No
<Form> (Radio button for No)
<P> (next question

Never heard of the other techniques you mentioned. Hmmmm.

Cheers, Karen

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Grappasonno
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 4:58 PM
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Subject: [WebAIM] Proper nesting of <Form> tags in PDF's? (Further
clarification)

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
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