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From: Natasha Johnston
Date: Apr 20, 2022 5:55AM

Fantastic, thanks JP. Appreciate your help.
Natasha

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Subject: RE: [WebAIM] Question for forum

Yes, add the same description in the Title field and that should make it work with Voiceover.

What you will find out is that JAWS users will benefit from the Title field if they are setting focus on the images using CTRL + Shift + o.

I have witnessed this defect in the past and made it a habit to fill out both fields with the same alternative text.


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Subject: RE: [WebAIM] Question for forum



Hi Jerra and JP,



Thank you both for your suggestions.



I'm using Office 2016. There isn't a "mark as decorative" checkbox as there is with Office 365; I do however have the option to add a title and description. I add my alt text to description and leave the title box blank; not sure if that could be the problem.



I've double-checked and the images are in-line with text.



Many thanks,

Natasha



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This could be outdated, but as I recall from testing, if the image is "Inline with text" it will be read by all screen readers, but those that are "floating" on top of text will have their alt text read by JAWS when it gets to an anchor, but not by NVDA. Might that be what you are running into?



On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 6:16 AM jp Jamous < <EMAIL REMOVED> <mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> >> wrote:



> Natasha,

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> What version of Word is this?

> If it is 2016 or Office 365, are you making sure that the "Decorative"

> check box is not checked?

>

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> Subject: [WebAIM] Question for forum

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> Hi there,

>

> I have a question I'd like to ask the forum in the hopes that someone

> can help.

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> 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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