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Re: JAWS reading "slash" instead of alt text

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From: Karlen Communications
Date: Feb 4, 2012 4:54AM

I only work with Office 2010 and DOCX documents. I also only use the description field but created a document to test with JAWS 13 for Karen's slash issue. I know this is a known bug in previous versions of JAWS and Word.

I looked at some of my books, ones I wrote using Word 2010 and, where JAWS 13 had previously been reading the description, it now isn't. So, the bug of reading slash when encountering images with or without alt text seems to be back.

I also find that this bug is not consistent. Sometimes the alt text is read if you do a SayAll, but this too is hit and miss and not reliable.

Cheers, Karen

Out of Office, Sent from my iPad

On 2012-02-03, at 10:51 PM, Jeevan Reddy < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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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