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Hello community,   I want to produce a table that looks like this (although I made this example in Word):   I know this looks bizarre, but we cannot have merged cells for screen readers. Therefore, I need a tiny third column in the first header row (noted with the red arrow, which I'd then make the left border hidden, but I am showing the border here for illustrative purposes) to make it look like there's a merged cell when in fact there is not. For instance, above the leftmost "Header" is another cell with the bottom border hidden to make it look as though there's a vertical merged cell, when there is not.   Is it possible to break the continuity of columns like this using RWI? Basically, can there be different columns widths across different rows? When I manually adjust cell widths, subsequent rows keep adjusting to the cell width of the first row, and the table ends up looking more like this example:     Here's some example code of what I was trying:   data _null_; set mydata; if _n_=1 then do; declare odsout obj(); obj.table_start(); obj.head_start(); obj.row_start(); obj.format_cell(data:"Blank Cell Same Color as Background", style_attr:"attributes here", column_span:1, width:"2.25in"); obj.format_cell(data:"Header", style_attr:"attributes here", column_span:1, width:"1.19in"); obj.format_cell(data:"Blank Cell Same Color as Background", style_attr:"attributes here", column_span:1, width:"0.01in"); obj.row_end(); obj.row_start(); obj.format_cell(data:"Header", style_attr:"attributes here", column_span:1, width:"2.25in"); obj.format_cell(data:"Sub-header", style_attr:"attributes here", column_span:1, width:"0.60in"); obj.format_cell(data:"Sub-header", style_attr:"attributes here", column_span:1, width:"0.60in"); obj.row_end(); obj.head_end(); end; obj.row_start(); obj.format_cell(data:data1, style_attr:"attributes here"); obj.format_cell(data: data2, style_attr:"attributes here"); obj.format_cell(data: data3, style_attr:"attributes here"); obj.row_end(); run;   Thank you!     ... View more

Hello community,   I'm building accessible, 508 compliant PDFs in SAS 9.4 using ODS PDF. I need most items in the PDF to be "tagged" so that screen readers can navigate the document for the visually impaired. Therefore, I have turned on the "accessible" option. However, sometimes there are items which I do not want tagged: for instance, an empty P""; return in ODS TEXT or a footnote (see example below). How can I remove/prevent tags for some items in the PDF?   (Now, I know that space between paragraphs could also be created using ods region, but I am creating thousands of PDFs automatically where the amount of information on each page differs, so I need the positioning of the paragraphs to be automatic. However, I am definitely open to other suggestions.)   Here is some mock code: options orientation=portrait papersize=letter nodate nonumber topmargin = 0.25in bottommargin = 0.25in leftmargin = 0.50in rightmargin = 0.50in; title; ods pdf file="filepathhere\test.pdf" title = "My title here" author = "Me" accessible notoc; ods layout start style={bordercolor=white borderwidth=0pt}; ods region x=0.00in y=1.00in; ods proclabel="Tagging this section I think"; proc odstext contents=""; /* Trying to avoid a tag here */ H "This is my heading" / style={font_face='calibri' fontsize=20pt just=c fontweight=bold}; P "This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. " / style={font_face='times new roman' fontsize=11pt just=l}; P ""; /* This is a space between my two paragraphs, which I do not want tagged as a paragraph. */ P "This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. This is a paragraph. " / style={font_face='times new roman' fontsize=11pt just=l}; run; footnote1 h=10pt j=r f='calibri' "This is my footnote"; /* I do not want the footnote tagged either */ ods layout end; ods pdf close;     ... View more