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| | 5: Do You Really Need That Image?
If you must use images, diagrams, plots and
graphs, and the information is crucial to all your readers, make sure
that they
can be rendered as tactile graphics - otherwise that information will
be lost
to Braille readers. If you are using the Word drawing and graphics
tools, make
sure that the image is saved into a separate file for rendering as a
graphic,
and that there is a note in the body text to alert the Braille reader
to the
graphic and its relevance.
You can add
a note to an image easily by putting a descriptive line immediately
underneath
it: this might contain a Figure number that the braille reader can use
to refer
to the corresponding tactile graphic. In the example above, we have
used a Text
Box to contain the description. In this case, the Braille reader might
not gain
anything from having a tactile rendering of the image, but they should
know it
was there in the original. | | Figure 1: A picture of the alignment buttons on the Word toolbar. |
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