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From: Steve Green
Date: Nov 2, 2023 4:19PM

Changing the reading order didn't used to change the selection panel order, although it does now. If you're using an old version of Office, such as 2016 or 2019, it's possible that the two reading orders will not be linked. I don't know when that changed.

Steve Green
Managing Director
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That's not quite accurate while you do have a reading order panel. It does, in fact change the section pane order as well.

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Dax
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With PowerPoint 365, there is a new Reading Order pane that allows you correct the reading order without messing up the Selection Order (or view
order) of when objects appear on the screen. Before this version there was only the Selection Order way to fix reading order.

<https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/make-slides-easier-to-read-by-using-the-reading-order-pane-863b5c1c-4f19-45ec-96e6-93a6457f5e1c>
Microsoft - Make slides easier to read by using the Reading Order pane <https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/make-slides-easier-to-read-by-using-the-reading-order-pane-863b5c1c-4f19-45ec-96e6-93a6457f5e1c>
Microsoft - video explanation of the above <https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/video-create-slides-with-an-accessible-reading-order-794fc5da-f686-464d-8c29-1c6ab8515465>

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Brian

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> Subject: [WebAIM] question about signing PDF documents Here is the
> scenario we have.
> We have a document with various sections that needs to be completed by
> different entities within our department.
> The employee fills out section a and signs it and then forwards same
> to the supervisor.
> The supervisor fills out section b and signs the document and send it
> to the next processer.
> There are sections c through k that need to be filled out by other
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> When I was testing this document, I noticed that after signing the
> document for the supervisor as well as the employee, I could no longer
> access the document using Acrobat reader.
> Is it possible that I caused this by signing twice?
> Acrobat reader was not activating the reading options dialogue which
> enabled my screen reader to access the document.
> I was however able to access the document with the usual screen reader
> access using Acrobat DC professional.
> Can anyone explain what might be happening here?
> Is there a setting that needs to be configured to allow subsequent
> processing following these signatures?
> Thanks for any thoughts on this
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> Subject: [WebAIM] PowerPoint_Reading Order Good afternoon, Can anyone
> here assist with a PowerPoint reading order issue?
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> There is a text box header situated above a text box of content - In
> the slide's alignment, the header is in front of the text box, but in
> the reading order it's reversed (#2 and #3 in the image below). When I
> switch them so they're correct in the reading order, that changes
> their alignment on the slide [cid:image001.png@01DA0DA1.A6ED0D60]
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> Corrected reading order:
> [cid:image002.png@01DA0DA2.5B818990]
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> Does anyone know how to fix this so that the reading order is correct
> without rearranging the slide content? Only think I can think to do is
> group them and give them alt text.
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> Thank you!
> Claire
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