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Re: Decorative Images in Outlook Email

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From: John E Brandt
Date: Sep 25, 2012 9:07AM

I don't believe that it is possible to add the "null ALT" (i.e., ALT="") to
any image in any of the MS Office Suite applications, Outlook included.

You'll have to find out from one of the JAWS or NVDA users what they
actually encounter when an image has no alternative description; I'd be
curious to know.

As you know, the MS Office for Mac does not work with VoiceOver (VO) on Mac
OSX and the iWork suite does not have the ability to add ALT descriptions. I
can't remember if VO reads the ALT descriptions in LibreOffice.

~j

John E. Brandt
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Augusta, Maine, USA