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Re: TOC Hyperlinks question

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From: Philip Kiff
Date: Dec 18, 2020 10:03AM

I have had many troubles with Tables of Contents and have found that the
AxesPDF QuickFix solution is usually a good one - though I found very
little documentation on how to use this feature correctly, and still
find it a bit of trial and error to get it right.

Ilana wrote:

> We've also tried another option which is to create proper links in Word and when exported to PDF we get similar results but the proviso is to make sure the user is in scroll view.

I wasn't aware of the limitation with the scroll view, but I have also
found that if you use an automatically generated Table of Contents in
Microsoft Word (one that is not edited at all after generating it), then
the ToC links seem to take screen readers to the correct heading
location within a page.

But you cannot make any edits to those links after you generate the PDF.
If you later need to edit links in a PDF generated this way, then the
destination no longer works and sometimes the link breaks entirely, so
you have to create new destinations for each link again manually. Which,
as Steve points out, can be very very laborious. I sometimes work with
documents that have Tables of Contents with 100 or more links, running
several pages long.

Phil.

On 2020-12-18 10:50, <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote:
> Good to know, thank you. And, without that tool, you're saying it's very time consuming to enable the TOC links to work correctly for screen reader users?
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> Thanks again,
>
> Katie Frederick, Program Administrator
> Bureau of Services for the Visually Impaired
> Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities
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