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From: Natasha Johnston
Date: Apr 20, 2022 2:19AM

Thanks Steve,

We have a group of volunteers who check our documents for us to help us improve accessibility; two of them use Voiceover and have both feedback the same issue. I will check the details below with them and come back to you.

Many thanks,
Natasha

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Green [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: 14 April 2022 09:19
To: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Question for forum

There are a number of factors that you have not specified, such as:



* Are you using macOS, iOS or both? There are significant differences between Voiceover on the two platforms.

* Are you opening the documents in Word for Mac, Pages or some other application?

* If you are using Word for Mac, is it the desktop version or the web version?

Steve Green
Managing Director
Test Partners Ltd




-----Original Message-----
From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of Natasha Johnston
Sent: 14 April 2022 08:47
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Subject: [WebAIM] Question for forum



Hi there,



I have a question I'd like to ask the forum in the hopes that someone can help.



I work for a visual impairment charity and it's been highlighted to us that when we add pictures to our Word documents the alt text isn't being identified and read out by VoiceOver (only the file name and extension is read). We haven't been able to work out why; our alt text is picked up by JAWS and SuperNova. Does anyone have any suggestions?



Many thanks,

Natasha



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