[Accessibility_sig] WORD document to PDF - tagging

[Moore, Michael]

Thanks Andrew,

Its nice to know that when we upgrade to 7.1 more document structure
will be available to our AT users.

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: accessibility_sig-bounces at knowbility.org
[mailto:accessibility_sig-bounces at knowbility.org] On Behalf Of Andrew
Kirkpatrick
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 12:50 PM
To: Discussion list for web and software accessibility issues
Subject: Re: [Accessibility_sig] WORD document to PDF - tagging

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

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