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Re: A case for artifacting bullets in unordered lists in PDFs

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From: Chagnon | PubCom
Date: Jul 23, 2013 11:08PM

It depends upon the context of the list, but in most cases the actual
character used as the bullet is a decorative piece of frou-frou so
regardless of whether it's a traditional round bullet, square, triangle, or
smiley face, AT users really just need to know it's a bullet.

If we spend too much time on this low-level stuff, we'll never have enough
hours in a day for the major stuff, like writing a good document, designing
it, writing informative alt-text, and tagging it for accessibility.

-Bevi Chagnon
- PubCom.com - Trainers, Consultants, Designers, and Developers.
- Print, Web, Acrobat, XML, eBooks, and U.S. Federal Section 508
Accessibility.

-----Original Message-----
[AWK]: Most AT recognize the bullet character and announce "bullet" so you
don't need to use ActualText unless you are using a non-standard bullet
(e.g. using a star for the bullet).
[REB]: What should be placed as the value of the actualText if a
non-standard bullet (such as U+25B6 (right facing triangle))? Just bullet?