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Originally Posted by Hitch
Ditto. I tried a BUNCH of PDFs/INDD files, and NONE were tagged for reflowability. It's...nobody thinks about it, for the obvious reasons. PDF is intended to be a PRINT layout (or, conveyable layout) option--so that the content is always the same, n'est-ce pas? If you want reflowable, you make a different file type.
Not spurning the idea of "reflowable" PDFs, but to me, it's round peg-square hole. Wrong tool for the job.
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Well for government requirements (Section 508), a lot of government/academic documents require accessibility:
HHS.gov Section 508 PDF Checklist
WebAIM's Section 508 Checklist
Section 508s "Create Accessible Electronic Documents"
I haven't seen it in the wild with my own eyes though. And from what I gather in communities like LaTeX, even the academics just consider giving alternate formats (EPUB/HTML/DOCX/[...]) if needed. (Tagged PDF support in LaTeX is... not that great.)
The one nice thing about having properly Tagged PDFs though is nicer Copy/Pasting. And like we always mention about Accessibility, Text-to-Speech in a Tagged PDF is much better (ignoring useless text like page numbers in footers or author/chapter names in headers, etc. etc.).
I think I recall watching a speech about librarians promoting accessible documents as well. I'll have to see if I could hunt down that speech.