13, Picture 17, Picture 54, and there’s no way for me to understand what those pictures are. [Pictures points the arrow to the Objects not Inline menu on the right side of the screen] Because they were not imported with names. So in this case that Picture 40 is missing Alt Text, and I happen to know where Picture 40 was, because I just deleted it, but let’s say I was at the beginning of my document and I had just run this checker on a new document that I had just opened. [Presenter moves through the document on the screen] So I’m going to come up here and all I have to do is in this Inspection Results pane, and click on Picture 40. [Presenter clicks on Picture 40] And it’s going to take me directly to an image that it’s referencing is as missing the Alt Text. And at the bottom of this Inspection Results pane it shows Additional Information, and it tells me why I should fix the error, and how to fix it. [Presenter indicates the Additional Information menu by moving the arrow to the bottom of the Inspection Results pane] So this way I don’t have to go off and find instructions on all of this. It just tells me the ‘Alternate text helps readers understand information that’s presented in pictures and other objects,’ and how to fix it. To add an alternate text to a picture or object we right click on the object and then select the format command. [Presenter right clicks on the object, and then selects Format Picture] We then switch to the Alt Text tab and we type a description of the object into the Title and the Description text boxes. [Presenter switches to the Alt Text tab and then types data into the Title and Description text boxes] And you’ll see here, I’m going to just use a portion of this for the Title, and then I’m going to go ahead and close this. [Presenter types data into the Title line, and then clicks on Close] So you notice that the second I input that text in the Alt Text field, that error has disappeared from my Inspection Results list. This is a real time result, so as you make corrections it will automatically add or remove items from the list, so it’s not like a checker that I run it, and I
[Presenter searches the website on the screen] There is a document that goes over the Accessibility Checker, and I believe there’s a thing that says where are the rules, or the Accessibility Checker rules. [Presenter searches and selects a page on Accessibility Checker rules] So this is a list of rules that the Accessibility Checker checks for, and here it says Detailed Explanation of each of these rules. [Presenter points to a section on the page on the screen] And you can see here why fix, and how to fix. [Presenter points to a section on the page of the screen] So it’s all in this document here. Just do a search on Office at Microsoft.com for Accessibility Checker rules, and you can pull up that page. Yes, Sir? [Question being asked from the audience] So the question is SharePoint, is it the backbone of the Office environment? SharePoint is definitely a different view, because its HTML based and there’s a whole bunch of other things. The short answer is can we rule that the Checker works with SharePoint; no, it doesn’t unfortunately. In an online environment there are just a number of other factors we need to focus on. I know they’re doing more work in SharePoint, and trying to build in more system defaults around some tools, whether that will make them accessible or not, but I’m not the right person to talk about SharePoint documents. Yes? [Question being asked from the audience] Yeah, the question is, is there an ignore button where you can ignore maybe Check for Warning, if you’ve decided that it’s something that doesn’t need to be fixed and can you clear it, so that it’s ignored. And no, there’s not. It’s just when you check it, it’s there, OK I’ve looked at it, and I’m going to move to the next one. But that’s a good recommendation I’ll take back to the team.