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I am trying to create an accessible PDF file from an accessible PowerPoint
presentation. I understand that a screen reader will read the text
associated with an image (in the Web property) inside PowerPoint, but when I
create a PDF file (using Adobe Acrobat Professional 6.0), the images do not
have associated text. The PDF file is tagged, and includes tags for the
images (which are called figure tags), but there is no text property to
contain the Web text (alt text) from the PowerPoint presentation.
I have read that this issue occurs with PowerPoint-generated HTML ("Unlike
regular alt-text, web text (PowerPoint's version of alt-text) will not show
up on mouse-over when PowerPoint is converted to HTML." See:
http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-932325.php).
I'm wondering if this is the same issue with PDF. Also, this is an issue
that has been around for years, so I'm wondering if anyone has found any
kind of solution, short of manually entering all of the web/alt text into
the generated tagged PDF file (and having to do it all over again if the PDF
file must be regenerated for some reason).
Any ideas?
presentation. I understand that a screen reader will read the text
associated with an image (in the Web property) inside PowerPoint, but when I
create a PDF file (using Adobe Acrobat Professional 6.0), the images do not
have associated text. The PDF file is tagged, and includes tags for the
images (which are called figure tags), but there is no text property to
contain the Web text (alt text) from the PowerPoint presentation.
I have read that this issue occurs with PowerPoint-generated HTML ("Unlike
regular alt-text, web text (PowerPoint's version of alt-text) will not show
up on mouse-over when PowerPoint is converted to HTML." See:
http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-932325.php).
I'm wondering if this is the same issue with PDF. Also, this is an issue
that has been around for years, so I'm wondering if anyone has found any
kind of solution, short of manually entering all of the web/alt text into
the generated tagged PDF file (and having to do it all over again if the PDF
file must be regenerated for some reason).
Any ideas?