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From: Dona Patrick
Date: Feb 9, 2015 7:33AM

Thanks Ryan

I questioned them on this (using "") and they assured me that it was what
we were supposed to do in Word. I said I thought a screen reader might say
"quote quote" but they assured me that wasn't the case. I didn't argue
because my colleagues were getting annoyed at my questions.

Dona

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 8:26 AM, Ryan E. Benson < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> Dona,
>
> I am guessing they really meant to say is to keep it blank. People, I
> found would type null, or put a space into the box. They probably did ""
> because in HTML you do alt="" to tell assistive technology to ignore it. I
> am guessing that this connection was not made in that presentation. There
> is no way to mark an image as null in MS Office products. The current
> practice we use at work is to leave the description field empty. Assistive
> tech will say "image" when encountering it, but that's all. If you do a
> file > save as > PDF, the built in checker in Acrobat will flag it as an
> image with no alt, so you need to tag it as an artifact. Now if you use
> something like CommonLook Office to create the PDF, you can tell it to make
> the image an artifact when you convert it. The behavior remains the same as
> I mentioned above in the word doc.
>
> --
> Ryan E. Benson
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On Feb 8, 2015, at 11:39, Dona Patrick < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> >
> >> 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
> > > > > > > > > >