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Adding accessibility text to objects

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Adding accessibility text to objects

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- I'd like to take a minute and go back and have a little bit deeper look at the accessibility description of our figures. Go ahead and click one time on figure one, the California Condors that we finished up in the last movie. In the Widget Inspector, under Accessibility Description, Figure 1 California Condors was automatically filled in for us because it came directly from the title. But a screen reader is going to be able to read the figure number, the title of the figure, and any of the comments that are associated with that figure. What a user who needs to use a screen reader is going to want to know is what is the image actually of. Well, we need to describe that. So instead of having Figure 1 California Condors in the Accessibility Description, I'm going to go ahead and select that and delete it, and instead, type in Photograph of three California Condors on the side of a hill overlooking Big Sur. Now, that is a much better description as to what a user would be seeing in the…

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