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Re: Non-existent Alt-text voiced in PDF

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From: David Engebretson Jr.
Date: Mar 5, 2023 3:49PM

What's the original filetype you are working with?

I've noticed authoring tools will often plop artifacts into PDF documents that can't be detected without a deep dive into Adobe Acrobat, or the baseline PostScript for PDF ...

So many variables!

Thanks,
David



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From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of Colleen Gratzer
Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2023 8:45 AM
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Subject: [WebAIM] Non-existent Alt-text voiced in PDF

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
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