Re: PDF 8

Sorry, I misspoke. I believe it should be possible to add expansion text to
a span tag, too, but I'd need to look it up in the spec. And Andrew is out
this week.

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 10:13 AM, David MacDonald <david100@sympatico.ca>wrote:

> Yes Alt txt can be added to a span tag... but this example is to add
> expansion text, which for some reason cannot be added to a span tag. It can
> only be added to the text tag which is one level below the span tag... and
> this is not clear in our example...
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> I’ve attached my test file.
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> Cheers
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> David MacDonald
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> *From:* Loretta Guarino Reid [mailto:lorettaguarino@google.com]
> *Sent:* April-19-11 1:09 PM
> *To:* David MacDonald
> *Cc:* List WAI GL; maryutt@paciellogroup.com; Andrew Kirkpatrick
> *Subject:* Re: PDF 8
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> I'm confused by this. You can add Alt text to Span tags.
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> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 10:02 AM, David MacDonald <david100@sympatico.ca>
> wrote:
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> PDF 8
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> http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20-TECHS/pdf.html#PDF8
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> Dead link to PDF technology notes
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> Example 1
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> Dead link to image.
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> The instructions for Example1 say:
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> 1.    Select the first instance of the abbreviated text that needs to be
> expanded. If the selected text is part of a larger tag, access the Tags
> panel options menu, select Create Tag from Selection, and create a new Span
> tag.
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> 2.    In the Tags panel, access the context menu for the spanned text and
> select Properties... to open the TouchUp Properties dialog for the Span tag.
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> 3.    On the Content tab of the TouchUp Properties dialog, enter the
> expansion text, followed by the originally selected text.
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> I think it is important to make it clear that you cannot put expansion text
> on the span tag, you can only put it on the text that is in a tag one level
> below the span tag. For instance, if someone Right clicks on the span tags
> and selects properties, they will find the content tab greyed out.
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