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Re: PowerPoint accessibility-alt question

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From: Jeff Howcroft
Date: Apr 22, 2014 11:51AM

There are always going to issues with making office documents totally
accessible.

Why not convert the Power Point to PDF.



Jeff Howcroft
202 661 2180

-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Avila [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2014 2:47 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] PowerPoint accessibility-alt question

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:
>
> 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. ".
>
> 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="")".
>
> Is this advice incorrect?
>
> Michelangelo
>
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