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Re: Screen reader reading words as run-on

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From: Karen McCall
Date: May 3, 2022 6:23AM

All might be true, but what I see is an entire scanned page with Actual Text. And this is coming from remediation services that should know better.

It is true about the highlight not following text in either an alt attribute or an actual text attribute. Best path is to use an OCR tool to make sure scanned stuff or documents with no spaces between words or spaces between every character in a word can be remediated to be accessible/usable.

Cheers, Karen

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From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of Duff Johnson
Sent: Tuesday, May 3, 2022 6:03 AM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Screen reader reading words as run-on

> On May 3, 2022, at 05:49, Karen McCall < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> The Actual Text attribute does not let you add semantic structure such as headings, lists, tables and so forth.

This is not accurate. Any graphics object on a PDF page may have ActualText assigned irrespective of semantic tagging,

ActualText is typically applied via a <Span> element, which itself may be contained in headings, lists, etc. ActualText can also be assigned to marked content.

Duff.