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From: Dona Patrick
Date: Feb 8, 2015 9:39AM

On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 2:34 PM, Chagnon | PubCom < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> And re: the null attribute for graphics in Word...Is this even possible to
> do? Having been a Word expert since version 1 for DOS, I haven't seen this
> feature yet in MS Word. If I'm wrong, please let me and others know!


Bevi--

I went to a training for HHS/ACF employees and folks that do consulting
work for them. The presenters (not HHS/ACF employees) said to use "" in the
Alt text area of the Format Picture dialog box in Word (or PowerPoint and
probably Excel) and that when it was converted to a PDF file it would be
ignored by screen readers. They were wrong -- I tried it and both NVDA and
JAWS read it as "quote quote". (Same goes for Word. It is read as "quote
quote".)

Dona