PowerTalk appears to read filenames of images
Steve Lee
sounding like 'bmp' or 'jpeg'. This is caused by some bizarre
behaviour by the latest version of PowerPoint and there is an option
to the latest version of PowerTalk to deal with this.
The following is fairly typical question and the response
> I have some presentations designed to be talking story books. We just have
> an image and a bar of text. Power talk reads the text, but then also says
> something that is hard to make out but sounds like .bmp. Our images are all
> JPEGs I thought otherwise I would guess it is reading the file name.
>
> Someone has been making tons of alphabet books for me using the same
> template, so I was hoping there is a way to fix this.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated,
As you suspected there is a 'feature' of the latest version of
PowerPoint that is likely to be causing this. For some silly reason it
tells PowerTalk to speak the orginal filename of all images by setting
the alt web text field for images. There is almost certainly a bmp
somewhere - perhaps for the theme or master you are using?
If you have the latest version of PowerTalk there is an option in the
settings utility to turn off the speaking of alt web text for images.
It is also possible to disable it for individual images and other
objects by changing the Alt Web text to be a space which is not
spoken.
I should try the global option and see if it helps.
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Steve Lee
Full Measure - open source accessibility - http://fullmeasure.co.uk