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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">In addition to Karen’s excellent information, the other thing you might want to check is using JAWS, try the “list tables” command (JAWS+T). You want something useful to
come up in that list so if a document has a lot of tables a JAWS user could go directly to a specific table of interest.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Karlen Communications<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 20, 2015 2:35 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Access Technology Higher Education Network<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Athen] some questions on Word accessibility and the built-in accessibility checker<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">There is detailed information for both questions in the new tables and columns document at<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://karlencommunications.com/handouts.html">http://karlencommunications.com/handouts.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We use the Alt attribute for tables to provide structural info about the table such as this table spans two pages, has x columns and y rows, has merged or split cells...that type of information.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For captions on tables, use the caption tool...select the table to see this option in the context menu/right mouse click or AppKey.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Captions for tables optimize accessibility when they come before the table. They let someone with a learning, cognitive or visual disability know what type of information they will find in the table.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hope this helps.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The handouts have samples of accessible and inaccessible content.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Cheers, Karen <br>
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Sent from my iPad<o:p></o:p></p>
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On May 20, 2015, at 1:45 PM, Howard Kramer <<a href="mailto:hkramer@ahead.org">hkramer@ahead.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I'm in the process of creating some videos and other resources on accessibility. One of the things I'm looking at is the Accessibility Checker in Word an PowerPoint. I notice that the checker flags for missing table alt text. In the demo
document I'm using I have a caption (just normal text centered under the table) and introductory text for the table. I would think alt text would be redundant in this case but since this is going to be a training tool I want to ensure I'm correct on this.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks in advance for any help.<o:p></o:p></p>
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