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Re: Alt text in Word 2016: Indicate null image & which box totype in

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Jan 15, 2017 6:43PM

> I just saw an instructional video from Microsoft that indicates to type "" within the description box for the alt text will tell the assistive technology to skip that image. Is this accurate?

I have never known that to be accurate in Word documents.

> Also, at 45 seconds into this video, it indicates that we should write a title in the title and description in the description. But, this is different than the instructions on the NCDAE website

The description field is the one that is announced by screen readers.

Jonathan

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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Preast, Vanessa
Sent: Friday, January 13, 2017 5:43 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: [WebAIM] Alt text in Word 2016: Indicate null image & which box to type in

Hello,

I just saw an instructional video from Microsoft that indicates to type "" within the description box for the alt text will tell the assistive technology to skip that image. Is this accurate? The following video states this information at 1:34 minutes: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Use-alternative-text-for-images-and-objects-9c57ee44-bb48-40e3-aad4-7647fc1dba51

Also, at 45 seconds into this video, it indicates that we should write a title in the title and description in the description. But, this is different than the instructions on the NCDAE website (http://ncdae.org/resources/cheatsheets/word2013.php) which indicates that the alt text should go into the description box, not the title. What is considered best practice with entering alt text into Word 2016?

Thanks,
Vanessa