Rule: Links Must Have Alt-Text

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Rule: Links Must Have Alt-Text #21

Closed clblew closed 12 years ago

clblew commented 12 years ago

Can you explain to me just what this rule should result as? Is it the idea that link text needs to be something other than "click here" or "more"?? The only link in the document that flagged this error was an email address. Since links are text elements, they do not need "alt-text" as it would be if they were images.

clblew commented 12 years ago

When go to the "link" tab for this report get an error page: http://pdfae.webfactional.com/reports/8a7559c7-a922-477e-9eef-961bcd61d803/linkview/

prateek14 commented 12 years ago

The rule "All rules must have alt text" is similar to images having alt text A Link tag has an attribute called alt text that must be set and should indicate where the link leads to

The error page on the the link tab has been fixed

schiele1 commented 12 years ago

I implemented this rule at Jon's request. Should I remove it?

clblew commented 12 years ago

It is something to follow up with Jon over. I understand your explanation of the rule, but this was the first time I had heard about it. I will look more at the tagging structure while I am testing today to see what I can figure out from that side.