[Accessibility_sig] WORD document to PDF - tagging

[Andrew Kirkpatrick]

Some additional comments...

> tagged properly and that the reading order is correct.  The 
> document could be read using JAWS 6.1 and Window Eyes 5.5.
> 
> These versions of the assistive technology do not take full 
> advantage of the document structure.  I could not navigate by 
> headings or bring up a headings list. Thus the experience of 
> reading the document is much the same in pdf as it would be in word.

PDF do documents viewed in Acrobat 7 or Reader 7 do expose the headings
to assistive technology to use - currently JAWS 7 and newer will use
that information.

> An additional source of problems is the fact that many users 
> of MS office do not use styles to create structure.  Headings 
> frequently created by simply changing the font and making it 
> bold, lists may be created by typing bullets etc.  The 
> resulting pdf contains none of the structure.

Right, if the structure is not added in Word, it doesn't get exported
from Word into PDF.

AWK