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Re: 'Alternate Text' property in data tables

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From: Devarshi Pant
Date: Jul 8, 2014 8:11AM

"I think what you are aiming at is the table @summary which can be set in
the table editor. Support for AT is likely to be inconsistent though with
summary."

>> Yes Jon, I am expecting PDF table summaries to be picked up by JAWS as
they are in web. It seems adobe is providing the hook here (via the summary
attribute?), but jaws does not seem to detect it. Not sure if this will be
accomplished with adobe 11 / jaws 15 or later versions.

I also experimented using an empty caption tag with an alternate text after
the <table> and it was read when listing all the tables (Ins + Ctrl + T) --
though not perfect, it seems to work. Ideally, I would like to navigate to
every table and hear the summary by using the table quick key.

Devarshi
> In PDF, what is the significance of the 'Alternate Text' property

The property is simply available for all elements. Practically speaking the
actualText property should be used as replacement text Luke Olaf said but
it would replace the whole table's contents. I think what you are aiming
at is the table @summary which can be set in the table editor. Support for
AT is likely to be inconsistent though with summary.

Jon


> On Jul 7, 2014, at 5:06 PM, Devarshi Pant < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> Hi all - In PDF, what is the significance of the 'Alternate Text' property