[Athen] Touch Up Reading Order issue on Adobe Acrobat Pro

[Sean Keegan]

Hi Adam,

Did the document originally start as a Microsoft Word form with MS Word
form fields that was then converted to a tagged PDF?

Take care,
Sean



On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Adam Kosakowski <kosakowskia at wcsu.edu>
wrote:


> Hello Listers!

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> I am working on making a student survey form accessible, but I am having

> issues with assigning a logical reading order. When I first open the PDF

> file, Read and Write’s PDF Aloud can read it OK (just in a bad order), but

> after I start reordering it, it begins to be read as jibberish! I attached

> a screen shot pointing out what I mean. Just in case if the attachment

> doesn’t go through, something that used to be read as “Fall 2015 Student

> Satisfaction Survey” is now being read as “FGHHIJKLMNOPQRSOING…”

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> I have been unable to find any mention online of “PDF tagging changes read

> text to jibberish” and in general I am not sure what to enter into Google

> here! Any insight would be appreciated! In the mean time I am going to see

> if I can get my hands on the original file, maybe it was not a PDF file

> originally and I can make the original file accessible instead.

>

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