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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 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. 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