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From: Ryan E. Benson
Date: May 17, 2013 8:12PM

I heard it was not possible in Office, and followed the same idea you got
from CSU. Then since a good chunk of documents are converted into PDFs, I
remember to set them to an artifact in Acrobat.

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Ryan E. Benson


On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 3:21 PM, John E Brandt < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Bronwyn,
>
> I think the official answer goes something like this: "Unfortunately,
> Microsoft Office offers no means of indicating that an image should be
> ignored, so it is best to simply leave decorative images alone. All other
> images should be described with alt text." I grabbed this quote from
> Colorado State U's Access site. I am not sure what happens if you simply
> leave the description blank. JAWS users want to chime in here and tell us?
>
> I thought I had read somewhere that there WAS a technique for creating the
> Null ALT in Office. Can't put my finger on it...Anyone else know of a
> method?
>
> ~j
>
> John E. Brandt
> www.jebswebs.com
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> 207-622-7937
> Augusta, Maine, USA
>
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