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From: Dax Castro
Date: Nov 2, 2023 1:40PM

Yep. Because you put the text in the dotted box. This is the flaw in the Reading Order Panel. We teach that even though it seems counter intuitive, separating the text from the box gives you proper reading order control AND you wont get a <P> inside a <Figure> when exporting to PDF. Please do not group and give alt-text.

Thanks
Dax


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From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of Claire Forbes
Sent: Thursday, November 2, 2023 12:34 PM
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Subject: [WebAIM] PowerPoint_Reading Order

Good afternoon,
Can anyone here assist with a PowerPoint reading order issue?

There is a text box header situated above a text box of content - In the slide's alignment, the header is in front of the text box, but in the reading order it's reversed (#2 and #3 in the image below). When I switch them so they're correct in the reading order, that changes their alignment on the slide [cid:image001.png@01DA0DA1.A6ED0D60]


Corrected reading order:
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Does anyone know how to fix this so that the reading order is correct without rearranging the slide content? Only think I can think to do is group them and give them alt text.

Thank you!
Claire