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Re: Using icon+alt text as lbl ( in PDF list)

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From: Paul Rayius
Date: May 6, 2020 7:59AM

Phil is right that you can use an icon for the label (Lbl) in a list. As per PDF/UA-1, graphical elements that convey information (in this case, the list labels) need to be placed in Figure tags. So, you'd put the icon in a Figure tag (with the necessary Alt text - maybe "bullet"), and the Figure tag would be nested in a Lbl tag. (The Lbl would not get Alt text.)

In PDF/UA-2 (not released/supported yet) this would change and you wouldn't need to use the Figure tag for PDF/UA-2 compliant documents. But that's coming in the future, not what's implemented or supported now.

I hope that helps clarify things a little bit.

Paul Rayius
Director of Training
CommonLook