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From: Carolyn Dudas
Date: Thu, Apr 26 2012 12:51PM
Subject: Screen Readers & Alt Text in Word
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I'm a sighted user who is trying to learn how to use screen readers for
accessibility testing. So I am hoping someone can help me with the
following:

I am using Word 2010 and entered alt text for an image into the
description field.  However, when I use either JAWS or NVDA, it does not
read the alt text.  Instead, it just says “slash”.  How do I get each of
these screen readers to read the alt text for an image (if I am using the
Say All command, i.e. read the entire document from top to bottom)?

Thanks.
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From: November Samnee
Date: Thu, Apr 26 2012 1:10PM
Subject: Re: Screen Readers & Alt Text in Word
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Carolyn -

I may be mistaken (and Word is not cooperating with me right now or I'd
check to be sure) but I believe JAWS reads the title and not alt.

November

From: Karlen Communications
Date: Thu, Apr 26 2012 1:26PM
Subject: Re: Screen Readers & Alt Text in Word
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JAWS 13 used to read both the title and description but with updates has
stopped reading either of them. It does identify images as "Slash"

Use Ctrl + Shift + letter O to get a list of objects in the document and the
Alt Text should be readable/identified. You can use this for testing to
ensure that all images/objects have Alt text.

Not reading Alt text is a long standing bug with JAWS.

Cheers, Karen

From: lgreco
Date: Thu, Apr 26 2012 1:33PM
Subject: Re: : Screen Readers & Alt Text in Word
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From: Donna Lettow
Date: Fri, Apr 27 2012 1:03PM
Subject: Re: : Screen Readers & Alt Text in Word
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