Today’s tip is about decorative images in Microsoft Office: whether Word or PowerPoint.
We’re constantly striving to create accessibility techniques that are so easy to do that everyone who creates documents can make them a habit.
Thank you, Microsoft, for listening carefully, and continuing to work with us and others in the community to strive to include everyone. Therefore, although our recipe contains many nuances that are invaluable to users of earlier versions of Office, the best advice we now can offer is to upgrade to the latest version. There are still imperfections however, we have test results from all major screen reader combinations demonstrating that, for the most part, one can now trust the Decorative checkbox to behave as expected. Update November 2020: We’re very pleased to report that the latest releases of Office 365 have substantially improved the Decorative checkbox, and that it now works effectively both with screen readers working with Office files, as well as PDF files exported from Word. How To: Alternative Text for Decorative Images in any version of Microsoft Office You are here: Home > Blog > Recipes > How To: Alternative Text for Decorative Images in any version of Microsoft Office.
