pdf structure

[murrjames]

I have questions about the 'Banker Box' Should all empty banker boxes be artifact?

Is there a reason why there would be empty tags (span etc).

I am trying to test a PDF for accessibility. I say it fails a lot. Would someone else care to test it and let me know.

it is a 437 page document, not form?

This doc cloud link should work

https://cloud.acrobat.com/file/3127423e-7171-4bed-b95e-755976e37640

[Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com]

Your link comes up as a 404 error. Can't see your PDF.

What is a "banker's box?"  The only ones I know about are cardboard boxes used to store documents on bookshelves.

Empty tags end up in accessible PDFs due to how the document was constructed in the source program (MS Word? InDesign?)  Usually due to empty hard returns in the document,  like double returns between paragraphs.

[murrjames]

bankers box. If you open the content panel, expand a page, you see artifacts, p tags etc. you will also see an icon that looks like a banker box.

Shared Files - Acrobat.com

[Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com · Accepted solution]

OK, they're called "Content boxes" because they hold the content that's inside a tag.

Should all empty banker boxes be artifact?

The tag with the empty content box should be artifacted, not the content box itself. Once the tag is artifacted, the content, too, will be.

But be careful; some content boxes appear to be empty but aren't; they could be holding a spacebar or oather invisible characters.