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From: Ryan E. Benson
Date: Jul 13, 2022 4:06AM

Sean
If I was doing it manually, I'd just pull out the table related tags and
tag the content as appropriate, such as paragraphs and lists. The ability
to do this outside of Adobe comes down to the tool you are using to make
the pdfs.

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Ryan E. Benson

On Tue, Jul 12, 2022, 11:30 PM Murphy, Sean via WebAIM-Forum <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> All,
>
> I have a request from one of our developers how to apply
> role="presentation" to a PDF document. From my research this appears not
> possible. The documents being created are dynamic in nature and the
> developer is creating a template. The table is being used for laying out
> information. Yes, might not be the best approach, but this is what we are
> working with.
>
> How can you simulate the role=presentation approach available in HTML for
> tables?
> Does anyone have development documentation to achieve this functionality?
>
>
> Any help here would be greatly welcomed.
>
> Regards
> Sean Murphy
>
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