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Re: How is PDF accessibility evaluated?

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From: Jonathan C Cohn
Date: Feb 8, 2015 12:47PM

What about hiring college students to do the work? I suppose that might be dangerous.


> On Feb 8, 2015, at 11:39, Dona Patrick < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 2:34 PM, Chagnon | PubCom < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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>> 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!
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>
> Bevi--
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> 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".)
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> Dona
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