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From: Laurie Kamrowski
Date: Apr 18, 2020 3:56PM

Hi everyone!

I am remediating PDFs and I was wondering if there is a recommended
structure for organizing tags? I know that you can actually name them, and
I have when tagging a table by hand, but is there an actual industry
standard? I've checked W3 but the only thing I've found is this article
about PDF techniques for WCAG 2.0
<https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/pdf#PDF2>.

I have been using a method when I name every tag by page number and in what
order it appears in the document.

Example:

(This is what my tags panel inside the Accessibility tool looks like in one
document)

[Tags]
[<Part> Chapter 5]
indent [<Sect> Page 12]
indent indent [<H1> 12.1]
indent indent [<H2> 12.2]
indent indent [<P> 12.3]
indent indent [<P> 12.4]
indent [<Sect> Page 13]
indent indent [<P>13.1]
indent indent [<P> 13.2]

End example

I think this system should work for most articles and things that I work
on, but I probably will encounter something that completely negates this.

Laurie Kamrowski
She/Her/Hers
Accessibility Specialist
Mid Michigan College