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From: Paul Rittman
Date: Jul 18, 2025 9:23PM

This is my first post here, I'm not sure if this is a proper forum for practical questions about making my documents ADA compliant. If not, sorry, can you steer me in the proper direction?

Anyways, I just got through with a summer class helping college instructors properly construct files & web pages in canvas so they can be read with a screen reader, so I'm definitely a beginner here. Anyways, I'm open to suggestions.

I have attached a document with a footnote at the end of the first line. I am trying to properly tag this, but after viewing this website (https://crawfordtech.com/blog/making-references-and-footnotes-accessible/),
and then trying to have the PDF read in Microsoft Edge screen reader, as well as Adobe Acrobat's screen reader, neither screen reader rendered this document accurately (I want the title read, and then the footnote, and then the first paragraph up at the top of the file). I have attached the file to this email.

Am I doing something wrong here? Is there a better webpage to help me figure out how to properly tag these files with footnotes? And at this point, I'm open to hearing that endnotes should be used rather than footnotes, although I'm pretty sure the same problem with rendering the file in a screen reader, would still occur.


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