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Re: Artifacting visual labels in PDF forms

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From: Philip Kiff
Date: Mar 12, 2019 8:58AM

It's not a common practice that I know about. I have also always
included it.

Artifacting the labels would be mean that users attempting to understand
the form structure without entering Forms mode would be unable to access
the visible field label, which seems like a tagging failure to me.

Phil.

Philip Kiff
D4K Communications

On 2019-03-12 10:46 AM, Dona Patrick wrote:
> I am checking some PDF forms created in LiveCycle and noticed that the
> author has chosen to artifact the visual labels before the form fields. The
> form fields are correctly marked up with the same tooltip as the label.
>
> Is this common practice? I have always included the visual label in the tag
> structure and have never heard that it should be artifacted.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dona
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