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Re: Reference tag with ALT text

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From: chagnon
Date: Apr 22, 2020 9:01AM

No, that construct is incorrect.

Refer to the PDF Association's Syntax Guide at https://www.pdfa.org/resource/tagged-pdf-best-practice-guide-syntax/, specifically sections 4.2.7 <Note> and 4.2.8 <Reference>

There's no need to have Alt-text on the standard construct. If the Alt-text just repeats the exact live word content in the PDF, then it provides no additional information whatsoever, and may also remove some functionality/controls for the A T user.

Trying to envision what this looks like: <Quote> The Reference tag has as its Alt text the actual content of the footnote. The content is not in a Paragraph tag inside the Reference, as I have usually seen. There's no tag elsewhere in the tag tree for that content. <End Quote>

If the actual content of the footnote is in Alt-text on the <Reference> tag, then how do other users get access to or see the footnote? Alt-text is generally available only by screen readers and other text-to-voice A T.

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