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ChrisBam
Community Member
5 years ago

Variables in Alt Text/Focus Order

For the title on each slide we are using a reference to display the built-in variable  %Menu.SlideTitle%. However, when we change the Slide title, the Alt Text for the object won't update. The same...
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LaurenDuvall
Staff
5 years ago

Hello Chris!

There isn't currently a way to include variable references in the alt-text for objects. However, the value of the variable is what will be read off instead of the variable reference (%Menu.SlideTitle%).

I've recorded a short demo that includes how NVDA reads off the variable. Please let me know if you have additional questions!

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    ChrisBam
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Hi Lauren,
    Sorry - I've just realised that I didn't reply to this last month! Thank you for the video clip and showing how that actually works - I think I'd slightly misunderstood the way it works (I thought it read the 'Alt Text' content from the Focus Order/Accessibility settings).

    With that in mind, is there any purpose for any Text objects to have anything in the Alt Text for that object or would it only be non-text items that require Alt Text to be entered?

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      LaurenDuvall
      Staff
      5 years ago

      No worries, Chris!

      You'd want to add alt-text to non-text items if they're conveying meaningful information - like a graph. Text will be read off without assigning any alt-text to it.