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

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From: Dean.Vasile
Date: Jan 25, 2023 2:45PM

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> On Jan 25, 2023, at 4:03 PM, Aliu Olaoye < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> 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
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>