https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165294
--- Comment #1 from Tibor Nagy <[email protected]> --- According to the standard, every element in the header and footer should be marked as an artifact. Artifact elements are content elements but they are not included in the PDF structure. Creating a tagged PDF, hyperlinks should be avoided in the header and footer as well because the assistive technologies may still recognize the hyperlink on the header and the footer and read it on every page, potentially in the middle of a sentence as the text runs from one page to the next. It can be quite confusing to have hyperlinks read out at the beginning or end of every page. There is currently no such structural element in the PDF standard that can handle this problem. Probably, someone with knowledge of accessibility would know this but what about the user who does not know this and still places a hyperlink in the header and the footer and exports the file as a tagged PDF? These cases where the PDF/UA can't decide whether it wants to require things of applications or of end users who create the documents. Currently, this issue can be resolved with the proper use of accessibility knowledge. Do not place hyperlinks in repeating headers or footers. Instead, place them in the main text of the document. Probably the "a11y checker" should warn if there is a hyperlink in header/footer, but if the user does put a link there anyway we have to export it.(currently, there is no warning) So, we could implement this "a11y checker" warning, it would be useful. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
