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Re: Word Accessibility with JAWS

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From: Info
Date: Sep 24, 2008 5:00AM

The only issues I've had with JAWS reading alt text on images in Word 2003
or 2007 is when I'm using the Down Arrow to go through parts of a document
line by line. JAWS might say "slash" for an image but if I go above the
image and either SayAll or read by paragraph, it does read the Alt Text. I
have my verbosity setting for labeled graphics and picture and graphical
objects detection is turned on.

I create a lot of documents with images and always use Alt Text and captions
and would say that 90 percent of the time JAWS is finding the Alt Text, the
exception being the above scenario.

Cheers, Karen