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Re: 'Alternate Text' property in data tables

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From: Loretta Guarino Reid
Date: Jul 7, 2014 7:41PM

Alternate Text is meant to be the text replacement for an image that just
contains text. It is different from Alt in that it is considered part of
the surrounding text, possibly part of a word. If you provide an Alternate
Text property for a <Table>, the table will be completely invisible to the
screen reader.


On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 2:06 PM, 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
> > > >