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From: Ryan E. Benson
Date: May 21, 2013 9:30PM

Olaf, I interpreted the alt text feature in Word 2010 akin to the summary
attribute in HTML, and MS used alt text versus summary because of the KISS
principle.

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Ryan E. Benson


On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 10:07 PM, Olaf Drümmer < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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,
> >
> > 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)
> >
> > - 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)
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jay
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