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Re: PowerPoint accessibility-alt question

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Apr 21, 2014 12:47PM

Adding space in the alt text description will unfortunately not generate a null alt attribute or artifact. Adobe InDesign does have an artifact tag option that can be used to generate artifacts in PDF output.

Jonathan (SSB BART Group)

> On Apr 21, 2014, at 2:37 PM, "Iaffaldano, Michelangelo" < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> Bevi, earlier in the thread you wrote that "no if act. MS Office program gives us the option of setting a graphic (or other image item) as an artifact. And the HTML null tag "" (double quotes) is not available in any office, graphics or desktop publishing program. It's strictly an HTML tag at this time. ".
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> However a contact at SSB Bart Group emailed me the following: "The equivalent of alt="" in Office (specifically Word), is attained by creating null alternative text. To do this, open the Image properties, and for the alternative text, enter a Space followed by a Return. This creates a blank space and renders the image's alternative text as null (or alt="")".
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> Is this advice incorrect?
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> Michelangelo
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