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Re: Non-existent Alt-text voiced in PDF

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From: Colleen Gratzer
Date: Mar 5, 2023 5:15PM

Thanks for your reply, David.

The source file is InDesign. But I've looked in Acrobat and the Alt-text
is nowhere in the tag properties.



On 3/5/23 5:49 PM, David Engebretson Jr. wrote:
> 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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> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2023 8:45 AM
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> Subject: [WebAIM] Non-existent Alt-text voiced in PDF
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> 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.
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> They all have actual text applied, which was previously applied as Alt-text. The Alt-text was removed.
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> 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. *
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> I have renamed the files with every check in case Acrobat was caching the file content.
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> I have restarted Windows. I have restarted Acrobat. I have tested this on 2 different computers.
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> Again, I confirmed that there is no Alt-text set on these icons, even in the tag properties.
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> I am stumped.
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>
> Colleen Gratzer
> Creative Boost and Gratzer Graphics
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