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Re: Character limit on alt-text in PDF?

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From: Chagnon | PubCom
Date: Jul 1, 2013 9:24AM

Great, simple summary, Olaf.

One question: As far as I know, we can't yet put hyperlinks in Alt-text and
I haven't checked that particular issue lately. Has anything changed that
allows us to do that?

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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Olaf Drümmer

Based on observations made in a number of seminars on accessible PDFs I have
done in the last months it became very clear to me that getting
accessibility right is cheapest when as much as possible can be done on the
editorial level (whether that's for online content or PDFs). A good strategy
is always: if you have content that would be presented with lots of visuals
but without text just add the respective text somewhere else. As long as
content is distributed electronically there is always enough space!

For example - if you have some business graphics, just grab that Excel
spreadsheet, and insert it as a table next to the business graphic (or if
that's not an option, in the appendix); then point to it (or in the case of
the annex, link to it), and all you need to add as alternate
text/description is a pointer to the text based version of the data.

Olaf