11.8.1.3 Understanding JavaHelp 2 window-access limitations
In JavaHelp 2, pop-up links and jumps to secondary windows are represented as objects, placed at the start of their hotspots, rather than as conventional links. Only the objects themselves are active links. Hotspot text that you delimit with a character format in FrameMaker (see §7.8.2 Defining a pop-up hotspot) looks like a hotspot in JavaHelp 2, but has no effect.
The only way to include link-specific hotspot text in FrameMaker that both looks and acts like a hotspot in JavaHelp 2 is to insert in your document special markers that contain the hotspot text, plus (if necessary) additional special markers that designate font properties for hotspot text; see §11.8.1.5 Overriding window-access properties with markers.
In other words, for an active-link text hotspot, you have to use markers to recreate any text for the hotspot that might already be present in the document. If you can, that is; underlines, for example, are not possible. For this reason, the default window-access object Mif2Go produces is not a text object, but instead a button that immediately precedes text that is already designated as a hotspot.
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