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Re: Powerpoint 2019 Accessibility Checker

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From: L Snider
Date: Apr 16, 2019 8:32PM

Hi Mark,

As you noted, 2016 is an older checker and in my experience on Mac and
PC, it will throw errors. Go with the 2019 version, as this checker
will be the one going forward.

One note, in my experience (others may not have it and I haven't tried
this on the absolute newest update) on both Mac and PC, when I convert
to PDF the decorative throws errors as no alt text. Basically just
double check it to make sure, if you convert to PDF.

I need to try this on the newest update to Acrobat Pro on both Mac and
PC, as this may have been fixed in Acrobat.

Cheers

Lisa

On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 8:25 PM Greenfield, Mark < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> I created my first PowerPoint presentation using PowerPoint 2019. There are some images that I have marked as "decorative". (I was very happy to see this feature added to PowerPoint 2019.)
>
> When I run the Accessibility Checker in PowerPoint 2019, there are no errors. But when I run the Accessibility Checker in PowerPoint 2016, this images are flagged for not having alt text. My question is which accessibility check to believe. I'm assuming the 2019 version, but I wanted to reach out to this group for their thoughts.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
>
> Mark A. Greenfield
> Web Accessibility Officer
> Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
> 416 Capen Hall
> State University of New York at Buffalo
> Buffalo, N.Y. 14260
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