The line labeled Meetings and events steadily rises from 0.7 billion in 1993 to 2.8 billion in 2008. The line labeled Detailing Health Care Professionals steadily rises from 2.8 billion in 1987 to 12 billion in 2007 with a plateau between 1992 – 1995 & 2002 & 2004. Along its vertical axis are numbers 0 through 12 indicating billions of dollars. Along its horizontal axis are years running from 1989 to 2007 in increments of 3 years.

Ideally the person who wrote the original document will write the alt text, but more often than not we will need to write it.īelow is a line graph whose alt text could beĪ line chart titled Figure 1 Promotional Spending by Type of Marketing Activity, 1989 to 2008. Unless the chart or graph is thoroughly described in the text of the document, you must write very descriptive alt text for the image. Click OK after adding the alt text.Ī much more difficult alt text to write is when you’re writing alt text for a chart or graph. There is no character limit when adding alt text. Usually if you double-click on the image you’ll see an option in the pop-up menu that says “Edit Alternate Text”.Ī small text box will open up and you can type or paste your alt text into the box. Clockwise from the upper left corner: Dog, bed, flower, ball.Īctually adding the alt text can sometimes be a little tricky, but not always. Sometimes we will get the alt text from the SME, but not very often.Ī rectangle with four line drawings. Charts and graphs will have to be described in detail and objectively. Describe the image as if you were talking to someone on the phone and had to describe an image to them and they did not have a copy in front of them. If the content is an figure with associated text, you can click “Figure/Caption” and the text will be given the caption tag within the figure tag.Īfter tagging the content as a figure you’ll need to add alt text. Then in the Touch-Up Reading Order Panel, click “Figure”. To tag content as a figure, open the Touch-Up Reading Order Panel and draw a rectangle around the content you want tagged as a figure. In this case, all you’ll need to do is add alt text. Most of the time, when you add tags to a document, or when they are tagged from another source such as Microsoft Word, the images will already be tagged as figures. You’ll need to make the decision as to whether or not the image is important. For instance a drawing of a bowl of flowers usually will not be important and will not need to be tagged as an image (although it will need to be tagged as an artifact or background). Sometimes the figure is important and other times it doesn’t add anything to the document. This might be a drawing, a photograph, a screen shot or a graphic chart such as a pie chart or bar graph.

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