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From: Karen McCall
Date: Feb 14, 2023 3:53PM

And it gets "worse" when an automated tool tells you that the Link tag in a TOC needs Alt Text. First, if you add Alt Text to that Link tag, the concept of the TOC (text, dot leaders and page number) is lost in favour of the Alt Text on the link even though the screen readers read the TOCIs.

And footnotes or endnotes shouldn't have Alt Text because they are references!

I ignore any automated tool flagging Alt Text on links because: if It is one of my documents, I know I've done things correctly and I've double checked the Tags Tree; and if I am remediating a document, I've gone down the Tags Tree and checked that both parts of the link are there.

This is why we manually test and why defining an accessible PDF or any other document by the results of automated tools is like chasing the wind. 😊

Cheers, Karen