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From: Jim Homme
Date: Feb 2, 2024 12:07PM

Hi,
Once in a while I get Microsoft Word documents with text boxes screen reaeers don't realize are there. Microsoft has created a clunky way to read them that kind of works, but my concern is that there is no alert that they are there. JAWS can get at them with a key stroke. As far as I am aware, NVDA reads them, but can't go inside and examine the text without the Microsoft clunky solution. Is there a solution that would satisfy people who like to use these text boxes that also makes the documents more accessible? If I advise them to remove them, what is a path that I can recommend to make the documents look the same and still be accessible?

Thanks.

Jim

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