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Topic: RE: Inaccessible Page Content, no tags for header and footer???
Conf: (P-PDF) PDF Accessibility, Msg: 141908
From: DamienW
Date: 10/28/2005 12:54 AM

>A VERY good question. One
>doesn't hear it often enough,
>which makes me
>think that a lot of tagging
>work is occurring pretty
>mindlessly. You
>are to be commended for
>asking.

Cheers :-)

>
>Page headers and footers -
>unless they contain
>document-structural
>content such as headings - are
>not properly considered part
>of the
>document. They are instead an
>element of layout.

Okay

>
>So... you'll be happy to know
>that the "right" answer is to
>NOT tag the
>header and footer of the page
>at all - they should (in most
>cases) be
>excluded from tags, and marked
>as "Artifact".

Fine.. but is there a simple way of marking them as artifacts rather than using the touch up tool and marking each individual header and footer as background, as this is a 50 page document that makes 100 items to be marked.


As when I run the Adobe checker on it they are highlighted as inaccessible page content and I want my .pdf documents to fully pass the checker.

Option B, should I just remove the headers and footers from the original source document. They only contain date, page number, reference, org. name etc.


>Duff Johnson
>Document Solutions, Inc.
>http://www.document-solutions.
>com

Cheers
Thanks for your help
Damien