Setting bookmark appearance in the Bookmarks Properties dialog box (left); the bookmarks after they have been formatted for greater visibility (right).

Adding accessible links

Links can enable readers to quickly move from one part of a document to another, to related information in a

different document, or to a website that is relevant to the content. Links enhance accessibility by providing direct

jumps to new locations, thereby reducing the need for users to manually switch documents or search for a specific

reference point.

Depending on how you tagged the document and incorporated links, you may or may not need to add links at

this stage:

If you tagged the Adobe PDF document during conversion from an authoring application, the links and URLs in

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the document are probably already active and have been correctly included in the tag tree so that they are accessible

to screen readers. You do not need to do this step in the workflow unless you would like to add more links, such as

to convert the entries in a table of contents to hyperlinks.

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If you tagged the PDF document in Acrobat according to the instructions in "Section 9: Adding tags to Adobe PDF

documents" on page 48, you should have first applied the Create From URLs In Document command to activate

the web links and prepare them for proper tagging in Acrobat. Because Acrobat may not correctly recognize URLs

that end in a slash (such as www.adobe.com/support/), however, you may need to activate these URLs manually by

using the method described in this section. You may also want to create other types of links at this stage of the

workflow.

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