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From: Colleen Gratzer
Date: Mar 5, 2023 9:44AM

I'm hoping to get some insight on an issue I am having.

I've got a page with a few different non-decorative icons. Some are
inside P tags and some inside a list.

They all have actual text applied, which was previously applied as
Alt-text. The Alt-text was removed.

I've confirmed in the tag properties in the PDF that there is no Alt-text.

NVDA and JAWS voice only the actual text for the icons *inside P tags*
but they read the actual text *and* previously applied Alt-text for the
icons *inside the list. *

I have renamed the files with every check in case Acrobat was caching
the file content.

I have restarted Windows. I have restarted Acrobat. I have tested this
on 2 different computers.

Again, I confirmed that there is no Alt-text set on these icons, even in
the tag properties.

I am stumped.


Colleen Gratzer
Creative Boost and Gratzer Graphics
https://creative-boost.com
https://gratzergraphics.com