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August 4, 2016
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Preferred table of contents tagging?

  • August 4, 2016
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How best to tag a table of contents so that the needs of the user are met? The VA has detailed information, but I have found differing methods on other sites. Currently my structure is below:

<TOC>

     <TOCI>

          <Reference>

               <Link>

                    1.0 Introduction

                    1

                    Link - OBJR

I mark the dot leaders as artifacts so screen readers do not hear "dot dot dot dot", but the VA keeps the leaders in. Another site keeps the leaders in and puts them in <NonStruct> tags, but these seem to still get read. Any advice?

Second question, same topic: Should I separate out the number from the section in the TOC? I have done this previously, but do not see the value.

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Correct answer a_C_student16379412

Hi Crockett,

The PDF Association is hard at work on a "PDF Structure Elements Best Practice Guide" to answer questions like this - an early draft is here http://www.pdfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/StructureElementsBestPracticeGuide_2016-01-19.pdf

Until the final is published, my go-to place for PDF tagging best practices is the PDF/UA Reference Suite (PDF/UA Reference Suite  |  PDF Association )

Your TOC structure looks good to me - except I am not quite sure what the '1' is in your example. Like you, I artifact the dot leaders and see no added value in separating Chapter number and title. 

a C student

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a_C_student16379412Correct answer
Inspiring
August 5, 2016

Hi Crockett,

The PDF Association is hard at work on a "PDF Structure Elements Best Practice Guide" to answer questions like this - an early draft is here http://www.pdfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/StructureElementsBestPracticeGuide_2016-01-19.pdf

Until the final is published, my go-to place for PDF tagging best practices is the PDF/UA Reference Suite (PDF/UA Reference Suite  |  PDF Association )

Your TOC structure looks good to me - except I am not quite sure what the '1' is in your example. Like you, I artifact the dot leaders and see no added value in separating Chapter number and title. 

a C student

_Crockett_
_Crockett_Author
Known Participant
August 5, 2016

Thank you!

I have the draft guide you noted and even in its rough state have found it very helpful. Thank you for pointing out the other location. I'd been on the website, but had missed that page. The example tagged files answered some of my other questions.

The "1" is the page number. Some guides I read noted that page numbers have no meaning in a world of reflowed text and others included the number. The PDF/UA Reference Suite example I downloaded has the page number.

Ganesh_JI
Ganesh_JI
Inspiring
February 2, 2017

If we give the reference tag jaws reader read the content 2 times. Do you face this issue

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