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From: Jackson, Derek J
Date: Sep 10, 2020 10:42AM

Hello,

I wonder if anyone is familiar with a convention to tag the title in a PDF such that the title has the role of <title> and is mapped to a <P> tag? In testing with a screen reader (NVDA/Acrobat Reader) this is just read as normal text and there is no semantic indication that it is the title or a heading of any kind. I have always understood that the title should be an <H1>, and then subsequent headings flow from there. I wonder if this is an error since the title is visually indicated but there does not seem to be a programmatic way to understand the relationship. And I am talking about content in the document. I know the title must also be described in the metadata/document properties.

Just for the sake of clarity this is what I am seeing in the tag panel without roles mapped:
<Title> Document Title
And when I apply the role mapping it becomes:
<P> Document Title

Thanks for any and all help in understanding!

All the best,
Derek
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