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Logical Reading Order

• Let go of the visual and look at the way the content is intended to be read.
• For example columned text:
• Should someone read across a line or down one column and then down the next?
• What about parallel columns where the heading is on one side and the text is on the other?
• Tri-fold brochures:
• Visually they read left to right but if they were printed and folded, they would read differently.
• Rearrange the Tags so that someone who can't see the brochure knows what it is about.
• Other examples are tables that span facing pages or articles that are continued on subsequent pages.
• All of the content associated with the table is to be tagged representing the table, not "2 pages."
• The part of the article continued on a subsequent page is to be read as a complete article.
• We don't wait until we get to page X to continue reading an article…we just go to the continuation and read it, then go back to the page we were on. This has to be reflected in a tagged PDF document.