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From: Spealman, Jill
Date: Sep 14, 2017 2:45PM

Hello,
I am new to tagging. For decorative or irrelevant images, is it always necessary to artifact them? I am testing and find that if I delete the irrelevant tags from the PDF they still display on the PDF but are not spoken by the NVDA screen reader. I am generating PDF tags when I save the MS Word doc to PDF, so as far as I can tell I am not losing my irrelevant images.

Also...when writing alt-text is it preferable to include or exclude the period (stop) at the end of the sentence?

Thanks!

Jill Spealman
Instructional Designer/Technical Writer
JLL Technology Experience and Adoption



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