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Question to the people experienced with Screen readers: I'm currently writing a documentation where I insert lots of inline Screenshots, for example a little red cross. What would be the preferred way of writing Alt-Text for them? Usually I describe Images in a clear sentence, but I assume for inline screenshots it would make more sense to use a Single Word if possible.
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How are you publishing it? Are these little crosses as in saying to press two keys together, like the = I would put between alt+f4 to close something? If it's in PDF, they have a thing called "ActualText" which is a bit like alt text, but screen readers should simply treat it LIKE the text you put in. If anything else (eg the web) then I'd just go with "plus" or "and" or something like that (then NVDA would read "alt+f4" as "alt graphic plus f4".
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Thanks for the reply.
It's an internal documentation in the web, using a proprietary software. I'd probably use a combination of both approaches where it fits best. With the "graphic" suffix it seems to me dependant on the use-case.
But I guess I'll first have to try using a screenreader myself in order to better understand how it actually works, especially because it might not be very optimized for screenreaders.
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