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Re: POWERPOINT 2019 Accessibility Checker

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From: Karlen Communications
Date: Apr 17, 2019 5:48AM

Yes, if you use the new tools like Mark as Decorative, they are not backward
compatible. If you are using them, you/your department/organization should
decide which version you check against if you mandate a clean accessibility
check. As the standards change (WCAG and PDF/UA), there will be changes to
all of the automated the accessibility checkers.

I've used the Mark as Decorative with both the Microsoft ability to save as
a tagged PDF and Adobe Acrobat Pro DC all updates installed and if you mark
an image as decorative in Office, it is an Artifact in the tagged PDF
document.

Cheers, Karen

-----Original Message-----
From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of L
Snider
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2019 10:33 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Powerpoint 2019 Accessibility Checker

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
> telephone: (716)645-2811
> e-mail: <EMAIL REMOVED> <mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> >
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