From the course: Creating Accessible PDFs
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Tagging lists
- [Instructor] When bulleted or numbered lists appear in a document, they need to be tagged appropriately so that the user knows that the content is organized in a list. As a sighted user, the list is known by the bullet character or number that precedes each item. For a user of assistive technology, that same meaning needs to be conveyed. This is covered in WCAG success criteria 1.3.1. It's also covered in the PDF techniques for WCAG in item number 21. And it's also described in the PDF/UA checkpoint 16. Using my page navigation, I'm going to find the first bulleted list that appears in my document. And that one appears to be on page seven of this document. And so I'm going to start by zooming in on this area. So I'm just going to use my zoom button to kind of zoom in to get a better look at this. And then I'm going to open my reading order panel. Now between you and me, this is an area where Acrobat is a bit weak,…
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PDF remediation1m 6s
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Add metadata2m 45s
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Tag content with the Reading Order tool6m 44s
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Dealing with content that spans more than one page3m 35s
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Tagging lists7m 10s
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Tagging table of contents4m 25s
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Creating table of contents links4m 40s
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Tagging tables6m 27s
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The Table Editor7m 39s
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Artifacting elements7m 13s
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Work with the Content pane6m 32s
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Add alternative text4m 58s
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Add bookmarks3m 33s
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Tagging footnotes3m 26s
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Walking the tags tree4m 55s
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Validate the PDF file and cleanup5m 50s
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Finishing touches5m 7s
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Checking color contrast3m 3s
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Testing with a screen reader3m 36s
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Third-party tools6m 4s
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