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From: Karen McCall
Date: Jan 5, 2023 7:35AM

To follow up on the issue of where to put page numbers in a PDF, as it was mentioned in the previous post...

Use Page Labels in the PDF document to identify the page numbers. This gives you the flexibility to identify Roman Numeral page numbers as well as the start of the document (page 1) if there are preface pages. Both JAWS and NVDA have keyboard commands to read the page numbers if Page Labels are implemented.

If they are not implemented (in Acrobat), the screen readers won't render a page number and if someone uses Ctrl + Shift + N to go to a specific page, they may get an error message saying the page is not found.

Page Labels avoid the necessity of figuring out where to put the page number if it is in the middle of a paragraph or if a table or list spans multiple pages. These elements aren't broken to provide page number information when Page Labels are used.

Cheers, Karen