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Re: JAWS 2019 not reading the Description field in Word 2016 documents?

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From: L Snider
Date: Jun 18, 2019 3:10PM

Hi Joseph,

Are these older documents? The newer Word 2016 only has description, titles
went away and aren't read in Word.

Cheers

Lisa

On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 2:53 PM Joseph Sherman < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> Hello all. Suddenly I noticed that JAWS 2019 is not reading the
> Description Alt Text field of images in MS Word 2016. Instead it reads only
> the Title field and says "unlabeled" for images with Descriptions but not
> the Title field. NVDA and VoiceOver both correctly read the Description
> field.
>
> I have tried this with multiple documents and images. I am using JAWS
> v2019.1904.60
>
> A collegue is getting the same issue. Is anyone else getting this behavior
> or is it just me?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Joseph
>
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