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

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From: Jonathan C. Cohn
Date: Jun 18, 2019 7:04PM

Hello, it sounds like you have the April release of jaws. A new version came out last week. I don't know about the description issue directly, but I can check if you want to send me a sample.

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> On Jun 18, 2019, at 5:10 PM, L Snider < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> 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
>>
>> >> >> >> >>
> > > >