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From: Monir ElRayes
Date: Feb 18, 2010 9:51AM

The PDF Accessibility Wizard (PAW) for MS Word (www.net-centric.com/paw/)
has functionality to specify that a given image is "used for presentation
purposes only". Such images will be converted to artifacts when PAW
generates a PDF from the Word document.

Cheers,
Monir
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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Jason Megginson
Sent: February-18-10 10:42 AM
To: 'WebAIM Discussion List'
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] MS Word and Null Alt

Placing a 'space' (keyboard space) in the MS Word's 'alt text (Word 2007)'
dialog will place null alternative text in the Figure element of a tagged
PDF. This also appears to work with Word 2003 in the Web tab of the
Format Picture property window.

I do not know of a way to style or structure objects in Word in
preparation for automatic conversion to a PDF artifact.

Jason

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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Moore,Michael
(DARS)
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 10:08 AM
To: WebAIM Discussion List; Discussion listfor web and software
accessibility issues
Subject: [WebAIM] MS Word and Null Alt

Does anyone know of a method to create a null alt in MS Word? Something
that would be translated to a null alt when the document was converted to
HTML or to an artifact when the document was converted to PDF.

Mike Moore