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Re: Exit icons/disclaimers on HHS PDF files

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From: Ryan E. Benson
Date: Apr 18, 2018 8:49PM

If I recall correctly, the icon with a footnote is the recommended method
over a popup, generally speaking.

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Ryan E. Benson

On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 7:00 PM, glen walker < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> This sounds similar to links on government websites that go to external
> sites. After selecting the link, a dialog pops up saying you're leaving
> the government site. But with your PDF example, you don't really have a
> way to popup a dialog before leaving so you have to indicate you're going
> to leave on the link itself, right? From an html perspective, I would
> probably add a visual indicator that is part of the link itself and make
> sure the indicator has an appropriate accessible name that indicates you're
> leaving the government site. It could be as simple as "(leaving HHS)".
>
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 11:04 AM, Dona Patrick < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> > 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
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > >