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Re: Link labels and APA citations

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Oct 20, 2014 10:25AM

> Those might work for websites, but to the best of my knowledge, we can't do Aria in PDFs, PowerPoints, and Word documents. And controlling link appearance in PDFs is a time consuming nightmare.

You can use the "ActualText" property in PDF to specify a programmatic replacement to the text that is displayed. This would akin to aria-label.

Links aren't very accessible in PPT slideshows with screen reader users -- so having the url displayed in that case could actually be helpful.

For what it's worth this is a generic issue for links in Word and not specific to APA. Word does have a screen tip property that is exported to the title attribute but to my knowledge screen readers don't provide access to it within Word although it is available programmatically it isn't accessibility supported.

Jonathan