The second issue was that the quote style in Word didn’t translate to a quote tag. This method creates two issues in this document: For example, this is the modify style dialogue for the Title style: Apparently, this is because Office uses the underlying styles, not the style name shown when editing.The Title style came across as a paragraph.The Quote style came across as a paragraph.If a style isn’t in the styles set, you can’t create a template that will automatically produce the right tag in the PDF.
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Comparing the styles list against the PDF tag list, there are quite a few missing (e.g.
However, I’m not actually sure how important that is, at least for now, as current screen readers don’t make use of ‘rare’ elements yet.Īcrobat uses the style names, rather than the style they are based on, so whatever you call each style will become the tag. I sent the documents to a friend ( Léonie Watson) for a ‘blind’ test (in both senses, she didn’t know what created each PDF), using current versions of JAWs and Acrobat. Most of the tags were fine in both, so both versions of the headings ‘work’, even though the Office method matches the PDF standard set better. The Acrobat version seems to put the bullet points on separate lines (in the tags, therefore for screen readers), which is strange when reading. What it does mean is that the default styles will not create what you think they do when using the Office plug-in. This makes it extra effort to set up a template for creating accessible PDFs. The read out loud function works equally well for both – no problem there. Changing the colour scheme also worked well for both. I can’t tell why this is, I don’t know of another PDF reader that offers the function, and the spec is, well, long, and I haven’t read it yet.įor the Office created PDF test document, reflow doesn’t actually work at all, the option is grayed out: In a previous document (from the last article) reflow had removed the text (due to a font issue). OpenOffice is the poor cousin in terms of creating accessible PDFs, you’d have to do quite a lot of Work (in Acrobat Pro) to overcome the issues for each document: It might be that the Office plug-in doesn’t do something, or it might be the Acrobat reader isn’t accepting the input as it should. Open Office (at least from version 2.4) can export a tagged PDF, and when creating from within OpenOffice (rather than importing a Word file) the headings, lists and alt text all come through fine.
Changing colours and reflow (with the exception of the image being dropped to the bottom) also work fine.
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