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Re: How is PDF accessibility evaluated?

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Feb 8, 2015 1:32PM

> 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

Agreed this is definitely wrong and will be more harmful. I'll reach out the community of practice to provide input on this.

Jonathan

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From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Dona Patrick
Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2015 11:39 AM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] How is PDF accessibility evaluated?

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