Hi! So I'm creating a report template that needs to be fully accessible in PDF form. I've been doing a bunch of research and there's two questions that I'm trying to wrap my head around.
1. How does the Articles panel reconcile a difference in the panel order vs. style hierarchy?
For example, I have a text box that has text in this order: H2 > p > H3 > p and then a second text box that starts a new section with H1. I put the former text box into the Articles panel first, then the latter text box. Will this be read in the correct order, even though the second text box trumps the style hierarchy with H1?
2. Is it bad to have a lot of sections within the tags panel? (like the automaticall generated <sect> tags)
My understanding is that each new "story" in InDesign generates a new <sect> tag. My document has a lot of separate stories. This is partly bc I'm setting up a template and I don't want to link all of the text boxes in the document bc I don't know how the actual content will affect the layout at this point. Of course, the report will need to be checked for accessibility once the content is in, but I do not plan on threading the entire layout together. So, is that bad practice? Should there be a limit to how many section tags are in a document?
Any other tips/things to look out for when trying to set up an accessible template would be much appreciated. Thank you in advance!!
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