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Re: Tables spanning pages

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Oct 30, 2020 3:15PM

The situation where this is a problem is when documents are over 50 pages or the threshold set for screen readers to be delivered accessiblity content in Acrobat. If the page count is larger then the table headers will not be available on the subsequent pages. Many people are not aware of this setting in Acrobat. It can be changed - it's purpose was originally to speed up document access for long documents.

Jonathan