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Tagging tables

Tagging tables

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Tagging tables

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- [Instructor] Tables created in Microsoft Word naturally export well to the PDF format because they're automatically tagged appropriately in the PDF. As you've learned earlier in this course, one requirement of tables in an accessible PDF document, is that every table must contain a header row. So, let's take a closer look at how to define those header rows in Word for proper export to the PDF format. I'm going to go ahead and make a PDF of this file simply to show you what we currently have and what the problem is. So, I'm going to go ahead and save this into my finished folder. And when I open this and I go to the Tags pane and I find the first table, you're going to see that when I open this up, none of the cells in any of the rows are header cells. So that, of course, becomes a problem because we do, in fact, need a header row and if I go to the next table, we have the same problem. And, of course, if I were to run…

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