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From: Philip Kiff
Date: Jun 10, 2020 10:34AM

Thanks for the additional details and clarification, Karen!

On 2020-06-10 10:58, Karlen Communications wrote:
> To my knowledge this will be phased out by Microsoft although I don't have a specific date. Also to my knowledge, none of the screen readers or Text-to-Speech tools supported this and it wasn't converted to anything if the document/presentation was converted to tagged PDF. It is also no longer part of the accessibility checker.
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> My understanding is that it was sort of like the Title and Description in the Alt Text pane/dialog...an attempt to harmonize with HTML that didn't quite work.
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> Cheers, Karen
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