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From: John E Brandt
Date: Nov 22, 2011 10:00AM

Thanks, Christophe

I never think of the right-click on the Mac because... there isn't any. But
you can accomplish the same thing in the word processor application of
LibreOffice on the Mac by double clicking the image or by holding the
Control button and clicking on the image. This brings up a "Picture"
dialogue box that has as a choice "Options." Note I do not see this in the
menu bar or in the picture edit floating toolbox.

Within Options there is a place to add a "Name" the image and provide
"Alternate Text." It works similarly in the presentations application in
LibreOffice, but it uses different terms.

I also checked this with VoiceOver. It is a little funky, but I was able to
get VO to read the ALTs in both the word processor and the presentations. As
neither Pages (iWork) or MS-Office for Mac are able to work effectively with
VO, LibreOffice is really the only accessible alternative for the Mac.

There are some navigation issues with LibreOffice and VO and I crashed the
application twice while banging on it with VO. But it will work.

Thanks again.

~j

John E. Brandt
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