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From: Joseph Sherman
Date: Mon, Dec 16 2019 11:44AM
Subject: Does JAWS read Alt-Text in Excel Table?
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Questions, does JAWS read the Alt-Text in an Excel Table? And does that Alt-Text get converted to the PDF?
Joseph
From: Karlen Communications
Date: Mon, Dec 16 2019 12:04PM
Subject: Re: Does JAWS read Alt-Text in Excel Table?
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For images, yes, but for tables in Word, PowerPoint, Excel or Publisher, no.
None of the screen readers or Text-to-Speech tools (to my knowledge) ever
read the Alt text for tables created using Microsoft Office applications.
And it doesn't convert to anything in tagged PDF.
Cheers, Karen
From: Steve Griffiths
Date: Tue, Dec 24 2019 3:24AM
Subject: Re: Does JAWS read Alt-Text in Excel Table?
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Hi Joseph,
Yes it does - I just tried it with Excel 2016 and JAWS 2020 and it worked. =
When I opened the worksheet JAWS told me there was an embedded object; I pr=
essed Ctrl + Shift + O to get a list of objects and JAWS told me it was a p=
icture, gave me the co-ordinates of the cells it covered and then read the =
alt text.
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