[Athen] proper heading structure in PDF

[Howard Kramer]

Thanks Bevi.

-Howard

On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 6:33 AM, Chagnon | PubCom <chagnon at pubcom.com>
wrote:


> That’ll work!

>

> Unfortunately, there are many instances in WCAG and PDF/UA that lack

> adequate tags for the type of material we create.

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> Those who create the standards are mostly programmers (mostly, not all)

> who don’t usually think about how to handle title pages, titles with

> subtitles, kicker headings, deck heads, department headings, and other

> common parts of our documents. We end up cramming square WCAG/PDF-UA tags

> into round document holes.

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> I counsel my clients to do what makes sense to you for that particular

> document. As long as there is an H1 tag that designates the title, it’s

> somewhere close to the start of the reading order, and it is followed by a

> logical heading hierarchy for other titles, the user should be able to

> figure things out.

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> And don’t forget to KISS: keep it simple, sweetie. Don’t obsess too much

> about this and don’t make it overly complicated for you or your audience.

> Sometimes a <P> tag does the job just fine.

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>

> --Bevi Chagnon

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> *From:* athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu] *On

> Behalf Of *Bourne, Sarah (MASSIT)

> *Sent:* Monday, February 13, 2017 4:23 PM

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> *Subject:* Re: [Athen] proper heading structure in PDF

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> Personally (and what I recommend to others) is to use H1 for the title of

> a document, and only use the TITLE style if there’s a separate title page.

> I then repeat the title as an H1 after the title page.  I haven’t seen a

> spec for how to use Word’s TITLE, so I just made something up that seemed

> to make sense.

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> sb

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> Sarah E. Bourne

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