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Re: JAWS reading "slash" instead of alt text

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From: Jeevan Reddy
Date: Feb 3, 2012 8:51PM

Karen,
probably you might added title and opened the document in previous
versions of office.
Description is backword compatible awhich matches with alt text when
you opened the same document in earlier versons of office.
if you add a Title in Office 2010 and open the document in an earlier
version, the Title is lost. Similarly, current third-party tools that
export or convert Office documents (such as the Save as DAISY Add-In
for Microsoft Word and LecShare, which converts PowerPoint to
accessible HTML) utilize only the Description field, not the Title
field.
Therefore, my recommendation is:
Add alt text to the Description field. Leave the Title field blank.


On 2/3/12, Karlen Communications < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> JAWS 13 was reading both attributes which meant that the known bug of
> reading "slash" was fixed but I just checked in a document with a lot of
> pictures and JAWS wasn't reading either, it was reverting to the bug of
> reading "slash."
>
> So the bug is back in JAWS 13.
>
> Cheers, Karen
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