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Re: Accessible Hyperlinks in PDF

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Oct 24, 2014 9:53AM

> Can someone give me the exact steps to take to make the hyperlinks recognized in the PDF and work via the keyboard, or point me in the right direction? I would REALLY appreciate the help.

Locate and select the tag in the tags tree where you want the first link to appear.
Choose Find from the Tags panel > options menu or right click
A Find dialog will appear.
Choose unmarked links from the Find drop down
Choose the Find button
If the desired link is shown, Choose Tag Element
A link OBJR element It will be added to the tag you had selected.
Repeat for each link.

Jonathan


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From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Krack, Joseph@DOR
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2014 11:49 AM
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Subject: [WebAIM] Accessible Hyperlinks in PDF

Dear Group, I am having great difficulty making the hyperlinks in my PDF forms recognized by AT. The forms start in Word and then I make it into a PDF. In PDF the hyperlinks work via mouse, but are not recognized by JAWS nor NVDA. I have searched for ways to make them work, but all of the techniques I have found online don't seem to work. I am using Adobe Acrobat Professional XI.

Can someone give me the exact steps to take to make the hyperlinks recognized in the PDF and work via the keyboard, or point me in the right direction? I would REALLY appreciate the help.

Thank you!

Joe Krack
CA. Dept. of Rehab.