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

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From: Aliu Olaoye
Date: Jan 25, 2023 2:02PM

Are you guys stupid ? What's all this rubbish in my gmail

On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 4:55 PM Laura Roberts < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>