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  1. Place all graphics in anchored frames.
  2. Click an anchored frame one time to select it.
  3. Right-click the anchored frame and select Object Properties.
  4. Click the Object Attributes button. The Object Attributes dialog box appears.
  5. In the Alternate box, type an alternate text description for the content of the anchored frame. 
  6. Actual text is for reading aloud the actual text, as in the case of a drop cap. For example, if the author is using a drop cap for the letter A in the word "Adobe" but still wants the screen readers to read the word as "Adobe" and not as "dobe," this can be done by filling in actual text.
  7. Click Set and then Set again. A screen reader can now read the alternate text.

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Some of these accessibility errors require post-processing of our PDFs. Files originating in Word tend to have more accessibility errors that result in post-processing than do those files originating in FrameMaker.
Our goal is for Adobe to tell us that we have no accessibility errors and to see the following message box:Image Removed. Beyond that it is useful to test the document using a screen reader. See this table for ideas.

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Using the WebWorks ePublisher Accessibility Report

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