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From: Dona Patrick
Date: Apr 18, 2018 11:04AM

While it may have been somewhere in the guidelines before the refresh, it
now seems that HHS is requiring exit icons on non-governmental links in PDF
files.

A project I am working on is wondering how to implement this, especially if
the file is sent to us as a PDF and we do not have access to the source
file. From experience adding content to tagged PDF files can really mess up
the document structure/tags.

Secondly we are concerned that the exit icon would be read by AT after the
link. Would this be a case where we should add the disclaimer text to the
alt text of the link?

Can someone point me to an example of this being used in a PDF file?

Thank you,

Dona Patrick