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Re: MS Word Table ALT text and description

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From: Jerra Strong
Date: Jan 21, 2021 3:25PM

In a quick test of NVDA, a Microsoft Word table with alt text was announced
as "Table, has long description, with X columns, and X rows". I had to
press NVDA + D to get the description, same keys for an Image with a long
description available. In HTML, table summaries aren't really a thing
anymore, so maybe that's why it didn't read automatically, or possibly it
shares settings with image long descriptions, since it seems that's how
NVDA "thinks" about the table Alt-Text.

On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 10:33 PM Laurence Lewis < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> Hello
>
> Could someone please advise how the alt text and alt description for a
> table in Microsoft Word are announced by JAWS and NVDA screen readers. Is
> there specific keystrokes, or settings?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Regards
> Laurence Lewis
>
> Sent from my iPhone
> > > > >


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