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Re: Help! Inadvertently checked "Tag Annotations" in right-click menu

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From: Laura Roberts
Date: Jan 25, 2023 8:54AM

There was already a suggestion on UserVoice which I commented on and added
a sample PDF.

If you want to vote, here you go:
https://acrobat.uservoice.com/forums/590923-acrobat-for-windows-and-mac/suggestions/43552239-prevent-acrobat-auto-generated-links

On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 10:38 AM Laura Roberts < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> Did more troubleshooting and both of you are right.
>
> Acrobat is acting a little strange here.
> So what happens is if you create a PDF from a Word doc with cold links in
> it, when you first open the PDF and hover the mouse over the cold links,
> the cursor remains a cursor and it appears that the links are cold.
> But don't be fooled - there's a DELAY - if you wait about a few seconds,
> then go back and hover over the supposedly cold link again, the link has
> changed to hot and clickable.
>
> So Karen, I'm going to try what you said and see if that works when I'm
> revising this PDF.
>
> Been remediating for years and Adobe always finds a new way to drive me
> crazy lol.
> (To make things even more interesting, to save money my main client
> switched to Foxit and IMO, Foxit is not ready for prime time when it comes
> to remediation. I had to report bugs to Foxit on Day One.)
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 10:08 AM Laura Roberts < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> wrote:
>
>> This is in Adobe Acrobat not Reader. You can only get to the menu in
>> question by right-clicking on a tag in the tags panel.
>>
>> I found that if "tag annotations" is unchecked while remediating, the
>> links remain cold. In other PDFs I remediated where I didn't accidentally
>> click that, the problem doesn't occur.
>>
>> I have the feeling I'm going to have to redo a big chunk of this PDF...ugh
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 25, 2023, 2:22 AM Steve Green < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> What you are describing is a native Adobe Reader feature that you cannot
>>> control. It automatically makes text clickable if it has either of the
>>> following structures:
>>>
>>> [anything]://[anything]
>>> www.[anything]
>>>
>>> In the latter case, it adds the protocol http:// to the link, not
>>> https://.
>>>
>>> It does not alter the annotations or tags, so the links are not in the
>>> focus order and they are not accessible to assistive technologies. It's
>>> just a feature that Adobe thought would be useful to some people.
>>>
>>> The behaviour is different in other PDF reader applications. For
>>> instance, Firefox and VIP PDF Reader do not create any links. Chrome does
>>> create links, but it uses slightly different rules:
>>>
>>> [http or https]://[anything]
>>> www.[anything]
>>>
>>> The only way to prevent Adobe Reader and Chrome from creating links
>>> automatically is to use URLs that don't match those structures. I can't
>>> think of any nice way to do that, so you would probably need to resort to a
>>> nasty hack like adding a very narrow space after the colon. I don't think
>>> that would cause any problems for assistive technologies when reading the
>>> link, but you would need to test it.
>>>
>>> That said, I don't like doing hacks like that, so when I had the same
>>> problem I just told the client the reason and said there is nothing we can
>>> do.
>>>
>>> Steve Green
>>> Managing Director
>>> Test Partners Ltd
>>>
>>>
>>>