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From: Laura Roberts
Date: Oct 11, 2021 3:20PM

Actually Bevi, can you send me a PDF? I've been trying my own going back
over a year and it's happening to all of them.

On Mon, Oct 11, 2021, 2:44 PM < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Laura, if you could send me 1 or 2 of the problematic PDFs, we'll test the
> and see if indeed the Link-OBJR annotation is missing. In PDFs, that's the
> code that makes links accessible to assistive technologies.
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> It appears you could be the missing the Link - OBJR annotation discussed
> at https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Techniques/pdf/PDF11.
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> Jonathan
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> In a properly tagged pdf, I am unable to open any links using JAWS.
>
> If I use insert + F7, I am able to pull up the list of links and the
> activate command will open the link.
>
> However, in the pdf itself, if I click on enter, space, tab, whatever on a
> link....it does nothing. After using tab, I do see a little dotted line
> around the linked words, but other than that, nothing is happening.
>
> I thought maybe it was a problem with the tags in that particular pdf, but
> I checked a bunch of other pdf's and it's happening universally.
>
> I've checked all my settings.
> I've reinstalled Adobe Reader DC.
> I've reinstalled JAWS.
>
> Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks for your help!
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