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Dealing with content that spans more than one page
From the course: Creating Accessible PDFs
Dealing with content that spans more than one page
- [Narrator] It's pretty normal to have textual content that flows from one page to another in a document. However, when tagging content using Adobe Acrobat, it's not possible to select content on more than one page at a time. Furthermore, some applications are better at dealing with these situations than other applications, and may often split content across a page creating a less-than-desirable user experience. Let's take a look at how to deal with this situation. Now, I'm working in the 0404.pdf file, and I'm simply going to start navigating through the pages to find a situation that I want to address. So here on page five, we can see that the text at the bottom of the page kind of stops mid-sentence and then continues on the next page. Now it's one thing if the content is tagged properly, but it's another if it's tagged incorrectly. So to figure out where we are in this document, I'm going to go ahead and open my Tags pane. And I'm just going to select some text in the paragraph…
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Add metadata3m 46s
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Tag content with the Reading Order tool8m 2s
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Tag content using the Contents pane8m 12s
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Dealing with content that spans more than one page6m 44s
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Tagging lists8m 56s
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Tagging your table of contents8m 5s
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Creating table of contents links8m 44s
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Tagging tables8m 6s
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The Table Editor9m 14s
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Artifacting elements8m 50s
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Work with the Content pane7m 53s
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Add alternative text8m 44s
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Add bookmarks5m 55s
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Tagging footnotes5m 11s
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Walking the tags tree4m 41s
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Tagging unmarked annotations4m 25s
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Validate the PDF file and cleanup5m 56s
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Checking compliance using the PAC checker13m 44s
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Checking color contrast4m
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Testing with a screen reader3m 47s
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