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Topic: RE: published ebooks with .pdf tagged format (Via Email)
Conf: (P-PDF) PDF Accessibility, Msg: 152013
From: Duff_Johnson
Date: 7/12/2006 08:44 PM

> I too have been amazed by how many people do not perform
> tagging of PDFs.

Indeed.

> I even have seen PDFs from the Adobe website
> (even PDFs discussing tagging!!) that were not tagged. Crazy.

Yep...

> I think many "published" documents are out of the scope of
> the tagging capability.

Not at all.

> Only the most basic of office
> documents (one column, etc.) are fit to be tagged, which
> doesn't apply to a large amount of published content.

There are, of course, documents which are so poorly designed or laid out
that they cannot be tagged, or tagged effectively.

However, almost all PDF may be tagged, regardless of complexity. It is
certainly more difficult and time-consuming to tag complex documents
intelligently, but it can be done.

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