[NFBCS] Columns in PDF

[Wes Majerus]

Hi: If the screen reader doesn't announce "Table with x columns and y rows" or if you cannot move by table in the document, the markup isn't correct.

As a longshot, you could run it through Convenient OCR and see if it is able to create table markUp... sometimes it can.

This is not the final solution, but it could get you somewhere until the power company restructures their PDF's. 

Wes Majerus



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> On Mar 14, 2021, at 9:19 AM, Tracy Carcione via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> How would I know?  I pick "right to left, top to bottom" from the PDF startup choices, and the doc presents me with a long row of data.  Does that mean it's properly marked up?
> Tracy
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2021 10:03 AM
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> Are the columns formatted into a properly marked up table? If not I would talk to the power company about whether they could create accessible PDF documents. They can print those just like they print what you are getting. 
> 
> Nancy Coffman
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> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Mar 14, 2021, at 8:58 AM, Tracy Carcione via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> 
>> I have solar panels on my roof, and I get a quarterly statement from the
>> power company showing a lot about them.  It's a PDF with about 10 columns,
>> so many it's hard to keep track of what I'm looking at. I try to remember
>> all the headings, then sort of count over, but it's not a great method.
>> 
>> Is there a better way to figure out the heading for the column I'm looking
>> at?
>> 
>> I'm using Jaws and Adobe DC.
>> 
>> I think about getting other kinds of statements in PDF rather than paper,
>> but I find them much harder to understand.
>> 
>> Tracy
>> 
>> 
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