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From: Laura Roberts
Date: Apr 11, 2025 11:50AM

I'd encourage them to put text in the source document for the shaded boxes.
Do they have a reason for not doing so?

Best regards,
Laura Roberts
413-588-8422

On Thu, Apr 10, 2025, 10:16 AM Brian Lovely via WebAIM-Forum <
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> Hey Y'all
>
> I'm looking at a pay calendar PDF for a client. Each month is a table, and
> each day of the month is a data cell.
>
> They have various graphic elements in certain cells to indicate the
> importance of certain days. They have a right arrow and left arrow to
> indicate the beginning and ending of a pay period. They have a clock face
> graphic to indicate that corrections are due by noon of that day.
>
> They also have a background color to indicate days they are closed, and a
> heavy data cell outline to indicate pay day.
>
> They originally said the document could be a web page, and I told them
> that was the best idea because, although the meaning of the arrow and clock
> graphics could be conveyed via alt text, the meaning of the background
> color and heavy outline could not. A web page could use ARIA to add the pay
> day and business closed descriptions to the data cells.
>
> Now they have informed me that the document has to be a PDF and I'm
> stumped about how to make the background color and bold data cell outline
> accessible.
>
> Is there any sort of ARIA-like hidden text available to indicate these
> special days in a PDF? Is there anyway to add additional info to the data
> cell besides the text content? Does anyone have any other solutions?
>
>
> Thank you,
> Brian Lovely
>
>