Accessibility PAC 2021 flags Alt Text

Question

I am doing pdf/ua accessibility work, most issues I can resolve with ABBYY Finereader OCR Editor and Adobe Acrobat Pro 2020. I use PAC 2021, and it flags internal links as "alternative description missing for an annotation." Regular links I can create a content entry through preflight, but there appears to be no similar option for internal links in Pro 2020. I have figured out I can manually do the alt text descriptions, but seeing as my documents have 100+ annotations, I'm not inclined to spend an hour working on one document that should take 5 minutes.

So I'm wondering if I simply need to update my software, working with PAC 2021 and Pro 2020, I don't know if there's options for internal links in more recent softwares or not. I did notice that DC has plugins and that could help, but I'm an amateur when it comes to this stuff, so help would be appreciated.

creative explorer · Accepted Answer

@sincere_Palette2517 short answer, 'yes' newer software will most definitely fix this. BUT, you should try the Preflight fix first in your Acrobat Pro 2020. If you can locate and run the "Create content entry for Link annotations" fix successfully, you'll save yourself the upgrade cost for now to do the a bulk option. https://theaccessibilityguy.com/how-to-add-alt-text-to-all-pdf-hyperlinks-at-once-in-adobe-acrobat-pro-dc/

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