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Re: Easier way to artifact repeated header row for multi-pagetables in PDFs

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From: Steve Green
Date: Feb 15, 2023 1:30PM

It Is not necessarily a good idea to artifact those repeated headings. There are at least a couple of considerations and our team could not agree on a "correct" answer when we discussed the topic recently.

1. If a screen reader reads all the pages continuously, it may be confusing to keep hearing repeated column headers.

2. If the document is long, JAWS automatically switches into a mode where it only reads one page at a time. In this mode the lack of column headers on each page may be confusing.

To complicate matters, users can change the number of pages at which JAWS considers a document to be long, or they may disable the feature completely. Different users may therefore have different experiences. I believe the default setting is 50 pages.

If you do decide to artifact the repeated headers I don't know of an efficient way to do it.

Steve Green
Managing Director
Test Partners Ltd