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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...
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?
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.