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From: Johnson, Melissa
Date: Apr 22, 2014 12:57PM

For PowerPoint, if an image is added in an individual slide using the
'format background' option, does this create an artifact, or are these
images also disregarded by screen readers?

Melissa Johnson

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> From: Jonathan H < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
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> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 18:53:04 +0100
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] accessible data table with sortable columns example
> On 21 April 2014 18:34, Steve Faulkner < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> > http://assets.cms.gov/resources/framework/2.0/Pages/datatables.html
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> Well I, for one, say a massive "thank you", Steve! How did I not know about
> this framework?!
> It's well hidden away - I wondered why I'd not found if before, but having
> another google for "section 508 framework" and "accessible framework" as I
> did weeks ago shows neither appear on even the first 5 pages of Google
> results.
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> It could have probably saved me a good week of putting stuff together
> myself; that said, I can't use it now as it uses the old 2.22 version of
> bootstrap so I'd probably be in compatibility hell if I used the code
> snippets directly, but I'm certainly going to be taking a very good look at
> it for examples and it's right at the top of my reference bookmarks folder
> now!
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> Thanks again.
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> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 11:17:30 -0700 (PDT)
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] accessible data table with sortable columns example
> This is a good table for that, however, it doesn't have any row headers.
>