Verification - Open Action, Go To Destination, Dragging Movements (Desktop and Advanced Editor)

"Go To Destination" or "Open Action" 

When running a verification and going through the User Verification statuses, you might get a result similar to what's shown in the screenshot below, where CommonLook is telling you there's an "action" of a particular type - like "Go To Destination" - attached to something in the document.  

This is an interesting one, and the message in the Description can seem a little intimidating, but in all reality, it's probably not even an issue.  We'll give more detail below, but the long story short is that you can probably just change the Status to "Passed."   

Here's the more technical stuff: 

In a PDF, you can have various "actions."  This, for example, is how the Bookmarks work.  Bookmarks have "actions" on them so that, when you click on one, it takes you to that page.  Other things can have "actions," too.  Even simply opening the document can trigger an action.  (That's what the screenshot above is referring to - the "Open Action" - literally, when someone opens the PDF.)  According to the Description in the screenshot above, the "Open Action" has a trigger to "Go To (a) Destination" - a place in the document. 

This checkpoint, then, is asking you to make sure the "Open Action," to take you to a particular place in the document, isn't making something "weird" happen.  This is what's meant by the "does not initiate a change of context" part of the Description. 

Most likely, when you opened the document to remediate it, nothing "weird" happened.  If, for example, you opened the document and it automatically tried to print, that would be "weird," certainly unexpected.  Similarly, if you opened the document  and it automatically went to page 65, for example, then I'm sure that would give you pause.  Or, if you open the document and it somehow, oddly, reorders the pages, changing the presentation and meaning of the content.  But, because those things aren't happening - nothing unexpected happens - you can change the status of this verification item to "Passed."  

Probably, what is happening is that, when you open the document, it's set to display the full page view or maybe set to zoom to a specific magnification level.   But, again, because that's not making you think, "Woah, wait a minute, what just happened!?" then you're ok with passing this check.  

In addition, if a document contains JavaScript, you might get this, or similar checkpoints, asking you to make sure that the JavaScript doesn't initiate a change of context.  But, again, if nothing weird, or unexpected, is happening in the document, then you're probably safe changing the Status to "Passed." 

Dragging Movements

This checkpoint is triggered when an object has JavaScript assigned using both Drag and Drop actions.  When this is the case, a "User Verification" status will result. The "Description" will say "Dragging event detected, verify the users are able to operate without dragging."

Mark this as "Passed" if there is another way to operate the element in question, besides dragging or dropping. Mark this as "Failed" if dragging (or dropping) is the only way to operate the element in question. (And then go fix the document so that dragging or dropping is not the only way to operate the element!)