RE: PDF screen reader and how to tag a block to be ignored by it

Ended up using a background image of the column borders on all pages and defining no column borders for the columns themselves. Not a great solution but does the trick.

Marijan (Mario) Madunic
Publishing Specialist
New Flyer Industries

-----Original Message-----
From: www-xsl-fo-request@w3.org [mailto:www-xsl-fo-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of G. Ken Holman
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 2:13 PM
To: www-xsl-fo@w3.org
Subject: RE: PDF screen reader and how to tag a block to be ignored by it

At 2011-02-14 13:35 -0600, Mario Madunic wrote:
>The for-each won't work as it will force all blocks that contain
>content into the left most columns, hence making the columns
>unbalanced. Didn't think it through completely.

Actually, I thought the zero-height blocks would not have changed the
end result in any way.

Remember you can annotate the XSL-FO constructs with private
attributes using your own namespace, then a post-XSLT filter (again
using XSLT) can then filter those out to produce a PDF for screen
readers that is different than the unfiltered XSL-FO for the page reader.

I hope this helps.

. . . . . . . . . Ken

>Marijan (Mario) Madunic
>Publishing Specialist
>New Flyer Industries
>
>-----Original Message-----
>...
><xsl:for-each select="0 to $extraRowsNeeded">
>    <fo:block />
></xsl:for-each>
>
>So I was hoping there was an attribute that can define the blocks as
>fluff and no need to be read out. Stylistically bad and not screen
>reader unfriendly but what are other solutions?


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