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From: Dave Comeau
Date: Jan 5, 2023 7:24AM

To follow up on Bevi's point, another important concept in accessible PDF files is that are meant to be tagged in way that presents them as one continuous stream of content. This means there should be no concept of pages to a screen reader that is reading a PDF file, it should be a similar experience to reading one long HTML page.

Text content like "Page 1 of 10" should be tagged as pagination artifacts and not read by the screen reader.

So, if a page has a single H1 only it may be setting up a paragraph or other content that occurs on the next physical page.
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In HTML, agree. A single webpage is an individual document.

But in PDF and Word documents, the entire file is the document, and it is correct to have only a heading on a page.

Another example where HTML and PDF/Word documents are different animals with different requirements.

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