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Table Summary in Word Doc not Converting to PDF

Community Beginner ,
Sep 26, 2019 Sep 26, 2019

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I have created a table in a Word document.  I have added a Table Title and Summary (right click Table-->Properties-->Alt Text)

I have tried a File--> Save As-->PDF and a File-->Save as Adobe PDF.

In both situations, when I ran the Accessibility Checker it returned Table Summary - Failed.

 

What happened to my table summary?  Why didn't it convert?

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Community Expert ,
Aug 22, 2023 Aug 22, 2023

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As stated before, summaries on tables are not required per the accessibility standards.

 

|    Bevi Chagnon   |  Designer & Technologist for Accessible Documents
|    Classes & Books for Accessible InDesign, PDFs & MS Office |

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Community Expert ,
Jul 13, 2022 Jul 13, 2022

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My Word document was completely accessible before conversion to pdf according to the Word checker.

By @defaultxfs9gvffregi

 

Don't depend on the checker in Word to verify the accessibility of the .DOCX file. It's a very low-level mediocre checker that checks only a few of the requirements.

 

|    Bevi Chagnon   |  Designer & Technologist for Accessible Documents
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Jul 14, 2022 Jul 14, 2022

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Thanks once again for all of your helpful information Bevi. You've confirmed my suspicion that none of the checkers we use are adequate and that I don't know enough to be able to make these pdf documents accessible! I didn't know that the Adobe read aloud utility is not useful as a check. I'm going to get more resources.

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