Re: Creating accessible ebooks from word docs

[Drew Keller <drew.keller.work-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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I added it using this 
method https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Add-alternative-text-to-a-picture-shape-chart-SmartArt-graphic-or-table-52327e7c-cecb-45d4-9367-f911aa442371

On Sunday, February 12, 2017 at 11:13:32 PM UTC-5, Praats wrote:
>
> Where is the "Alt Text" field in Word to add a description text?
>
> On Thursday, February 9, 2017 at 6:26:37 AM UTC+11, Drew Keller wrote:
>>
>> If the docx reader does indeed extract that element, how can it be 
>> included in the converted document?
>>
>> I'm converting docx to rst so maybe it is different, but I have set the 
>> description field in Word's "Alt Text" Description panel but the alt text 
>> and description text never comes through to the converted RST file.
>>
>>
>> On Monday, February 6, 2017 at 4:29:42 AM UTC-5, John MacFarlane wrote:
>>>
>>> The docx reader extracts the alt element from the "descr" 
>>> attribute of Word images (drawings etc.).  I'm not sure 
>>> what you need to do in Word to ensure that this attribute 
>>> is set, but maybe someone else here can help with that. 
>>>
>>> +++ Praats [Feb 05 17 18:58 ]: 
>>> >   Hi, 
>>> >   I've been converting docx files into the ePub format using Pandoc. 
>>> The 
>>> >   eBooks I am creating are for people who are visually impaired, the 
>>> >   screen reader on the tablet reads out the text to the person using 
>>> the 
>>> >   tablet. 
>>> >   When I add images, ideally the screen reader should let the visually 
>>> >   impaired person know that there is an image, and describe the image 
>>> to 
>>> >   them. Which can be done using the "alt" attribute within the <img> 
>>> tag 
>>> >   when creating eBooks from a HTML document 
>>> >   I wanted to know if there was a way by which I could add the "alt 
>>> text" 
>>> >   in the word document directly for every single image. As the people 
>>> who 
>>> >   will be using Pandoc to convert docx files into ePub files are not 
>>> >   familiar with HTML tags 
>>> >   Any help will be appreciated. Thank you! 
>>> > 
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