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Re: PDF links and JAWS

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From: Philip Kiff
Date: Feb 1, 2022 11:14AM

To clarify further, here's the tag structure I'm suggesting:

TOC
- TOCI
- - Reference
- - - Link
- - - - Link Obj
- - - - Text of Table of Contents entry

Phil.

On 2022-02-01 13:06, Philip Kiff wrote:
> > Any insight, things to try, would be so welcome.
>
> Something to try would be to nest each link in each TOCI inside a
> Reference tag.
>
> I haven't been remediating PDFs in the past couple weeks and haven't
> noticed the issue that you and Steve have encountered. So this is just
> a guess at something to check.
>
> But a couple years ago I had issues with JAWS properly consuming Link
> tags that were direct children of TOCI tags. Technically, I think it
> may be that the TOCI tag is not supposed to have a Link tag as an
> immediate child in the PDF spec even though Microsoft Word and many
> other common PDF producers tag the TOC that way.
>
> Phil.
>
> Philip Kiff
> D4K Communications
> > > >