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Re: Office accessibility checker question

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From: Karlen Communications
Date: Feb 4, 2019 1:31PM

If you've pasted or inserted images or objects on a slide that are NOT in a
Content placeholder, they will be flagged by the Accessibility Checker as
needing manual review of the logical reading order. You cannot remove them
from the Accessibility Checker once you've reviewed the logical reading
order. We don't have that ability yet.
You can use the keyboard to place content in a Content placeholder by
pressing Enter in the Content placeholder and then accessing what you need
from the Insert Ribbon. If you have text and an image on a slide, use the
Two Content slide layout - Alt + H, letter I then find Two Content.

I have flagged this deficiency with Microsoft as a need to mark individual
slides as having passed a logical reading order review but it would help if
other would flag it as well.

PubCom.com has a page where you can identify things that you want related to
accessibility.
https://www.pubcom.com/vote/

Cheers, Karen

-----Original Message-----
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Weissenberger, Todd M
Sent: Monday, February 4, 2019 2:06 PM
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Subject: [WebAIM] Office accessibility checker question

I have a PowerPoint slide with several images-each image has appropriately
brief ALT text, and the reading order is correct. Due to the number of
images (I assume), the Accessibility Checker insists that I "Check Reading
Order"

Microsoft Office accessibility checker errors disappear after the author
corrects the issue. Is there also a way to clear Warnings from the
accessibility checker after they have been checked?

Thanks for any insights!

Todd

T.M. Weissenberger
IT Accessibility Coordinator
Information Security and Policy Office
University of Iowa
319-384-3323

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