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I have to make an ADA PDF for the web that wants to use things like ";)" and ":D" but I don't want the reading software to say "semicolon closed parenthesis" I want it to use my alt text of "Winky face." I set up tags, I made separate text boxes for the faces, I added the attribute Alt "Winky face" and used the articles structure to get it to read in the right order. I just can't seem to get it to not say "semicolon closed parenthesis" when I test it in Acrobat.
Any help would be much appreciated.
There are several issues with this situation, some we can control and others not.
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There are several issues with this situation, some we can control and others not.
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As usual Bevi, you are spot on. One very minor point I’d like to make in regards to 1b above, is that you technically can add alt text to elements other than graphics such as text frames if you group two or more objects together and add alt text it will tag them as a figure in the resulting PDF and add the alt text. Again, a very minor point, but I use this quite often in certain instances and It’s very helpful.
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Yes, Chad, that's a workaround in some situations, but only if the items you're grouping together are figures. If they're text, then that is not semantically correct.
With the text-based emoji the original poster discussed, it really should remain as live text so that we don't impair anyone's specific A T from processing it.
FYI, future PDF/UA standards are tightening up the tag structure so something like that could become flagged as an error.