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From: Christine Hogenkamp
Date: Nov 11, 2020 1:59PM

Hi everyone,

I am working on testing some fillable form PDFs for their accessibility,
namely can they be used with NVDA with the proper keyboard interaction,
focus and labels, so that someone using a screen reader could reasonably
fill out the form successfully without frustration or confusion. Does
anyone know where I can find a good example of a properly labelled, tagged,
etc accessible fillable form PDF, for me to use as my guide for how NVDA
should ideally be reading out the form elements?

Or if anyone knows of articles about how to test a fillable form and what
behavior the form should display when using NVDA, that would be great too!
Right now I have a few PDFs that pass the Acrobat accessibility checker (I
know, it only has limited value in itself ha ha) but aren't reading out in
NVDA as clearly as they could be (probably lack of clear input labelling)
or not smoothly moving by keyboard between the inputs and labels or other
text around the input spaces. It's possible that I, a sighted user testing
with NVDA, am missing how I should be moving within the form by keyboard
that a regular NVDA user would know already, so I am happy to learn how to
improve my testing to be more natural if possible.

Thanks in advance for any help,

*===*
*Christine Hogenkamp*
Front-end Developer

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