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From: Alex Tallon
Date: Feb 10, 2006 7:15AM

Yeah, ADA section 508. What I've got is a lot of PDFs of county maps or
city maps, things like that. The link might be something like Adams
county. You click on it and it brings up the PDF map of Adams county.
I was wondering if something like this requires alt text saying "Adams
County," or if the link was sufficient, or if it would need a lengthier
description.

Thanks.



>>> < <EMAIL REMOVED> > 02/09/06 9:40 PM >>>

Alex,

You can provide alternative text to the PDF map if you have Adobe
Acrobat
Pro or if your authoring program provides for alternative text that
will be
included when the PDF document is created.

Adding actual text (not an image of text incorporated in the graphic)
to the
document works as well.

Whether the wording provided in your example is sufficiently
descriptive
depends on the context of the link.

However, this wording seems likely to be insufficient as a standalone

description of the map. Moreover, it doesn't provide the content and,
again
depending upon context, that may possibly be an issue.

What are you trying to be compliant with, Section 508?

Regards,

Larry

In a message dated 2/9/2006 2:34:59 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
<EMAIL REMOVED> writes:

I was wondering if anyone could tell me if you have a hyperlink to a
PDF
that is a map and the wording of the link is something like "Streams
Display" is that sufficient for compliancy, or should you add alt
text
to the image saying the same thing?