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From: Steve Green
Date: Aug 23, 2023 10:48AM

The Content panel controls the reading order in Reflow mode, so it's very important. Also, some assistive technologies such as Read&Write get their reading order from the Content panel.

I fix the Content panel reading order first, before doing anything else. Ideally, I never go back to the Content panel once I start working in the Tags panel. You can really screw things up if you go back and forth between them.

I never use the Reading Order Panel.

Steve Green
Managing Director
Test Partners Ltd


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From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of Laura Roberts
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2023 5:17 PM
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Subject: [WebAIM] reading order

Hello,

I've been remediating pdf's for years and always adjusted the reading order as part of finishing up. But today I was wondering - is this even necessary when the tags are in the correct order? I've never had a screen reader go by the TURO reading order instead of the tag order in JAWS or NVDA. I don't know whether that happens in other less popular screen readers. It's such a tedious, annoying thing to fix.

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Best regards,
Laura Roberts
413-588-8422