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Re: - Word Documents header and footer areas not exported to PDFtag tree

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From: Hayman, Douglass
Date: Dec 12, 2024 9:41AM

Jon,

From what I've seen/heard, we tend to exclude those in our PDFs when remediating them. We might select just the first instance of something in the header if it provides something meaningful but otherwise missing. But we'd spare the user hearing

"Acme Corporation logo" read as each new page loads while maybe the first one was ok to have. Subsequent announcement of that header content would be a distraction.

Likewise, as I understand the process, we'd exclude the footer info and instead rely upon say, the page numbers of the PDF itself. I've seen PDFs that were a compilation of documents in the case of a public records request. The first document might be numbered 1-5 in the footer, the second one 1-20 and if those were not artificated but announced the user of assistive technology might hear in sequence, "page 4, page 5, page 1, page 2 and it went from the one to the other document now combined in a PDF.



Doug Hayman
IT Accessibility Coordinator
Information Technology
Olympic College
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