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Re: 'Alternate Text' property in data tables

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From: Olaf Drümmer
Date: Jul 7, 2014 3:13PM

Hi Davarshi,

if that's an option - fix the problem on the editorial level to ensure that not just JAWS users benefit from it. One option to fix it would be to make the description of the table part of the regular page content.

An alternate description in PDF is intended to complement "items that do not translate naturally into text". Photos, illustrations etc. come to mind, but usually not tables.


Olaf


On 7 Jul 2014, at 23:06, Devarshi Pant < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Hi all - In PDF, what is the significance of the 'Alternate Text' property
> in the tag tree of a <Table>? I have a document with as many 20 data tables
> with captions (or headings, for some), and would want JAWS users to be able
> to pull up a utility list and hear a brief description associated with a
> table as they do in web based tables.
> -Devarshi