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Powerpoint Outline View- still necessary?

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From: Bruno, Michele
Date: Aug 20, 2015 10:31AM

HE accessible powerpoint guideline documents have a best practice similar to ...with the exception of alternative text for images, content not visible in Outline View is not available to assistive technology...
Significantly more testing of numerous different powerpoint projects reveals that recent versions of JAWS is in fact reading the textual content on the slide- even if it doesn't show up in the outline pane. Can anyone confirm this?

Thanks in advance,
Michele