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From: Olaf Drümmer
Date: May 21, 2013 8:07PM

Hi Kay,

what purpose would the Alt text serve? Do you apply to the whole table?

Thanks,

Olaf

On 21 May 2013, at 21:50, Wyant, Jay (MNIT) wrote:

> Folks,
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> Just to give you a quick break from web-based issues, here's a question re accessible Word documents: What steps would you deem essential to creating accessible tables in Word? There are many possible steps (see the list, below), but which are essential? (References are for Word 2010)
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> - Assign a header row (table tools ribbon)
> - Assign first column (table tools ribbon)
> - "Repeat as header row at the top of each page" (via Table Properties, Row tab)
> - Alt text (via Table Properties, Alt text tab)
> - Bookmark (via Insert ribbon, links tab)
> - Caption (References ribbon, Captions tab)
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> Thanks,
>
> Jay
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