# Word and PowerPoint Alt Text Roundup

DevFeed: [Word and PowerPoint Alt Text Roundup](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/word-and-powerpoint-alt-text-roundup-9446.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://webaim.org/blog/word-and-powerpoint-alt-text-roundup/>)

Author: Jon Whiting

Published: 2025-10-31T19:14:54Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [WebAIM Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/webaim-blog.md>)

Topics: [Accessibility](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/accessibility.md>), [microsoft 365](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/microsoft-365.md>), [pdf](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/pdf.md>), [Microsoft](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/microsoft.md>)

Tags: [accessibility](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/accessibility.md>), [alt-text](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/alt-text.md>), [microsoft](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/microsoft.md>), [microsoft-365](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/microsoft-365.md>), [office](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/office.md>), [pdf](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pdf.md>), [uncategorized](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/uncategorized.md>)

## AI overview

This article reports tests of alternative-text support for non-text content in Microsoft Word and PowerPoint, including conversion to PDF through Microsoft and Adobe tools. It finds that alt text works well in Word and PowerPoint and in Microsoft's PDF export, while Adobe's PDF tools have problems with most tested image types.

## Source excerpt

Introduction In Microsoft Word and PowerPoint, there are many types of non-text content that can be given alternative text. We tested the alternative text of everything that we could think of in Word and PowerPoint and then converted these files to PDFs using Adobe's Acrobat PDFMaker (the Acrobat Tab on Windows), Adobe's Create PDF cloud [...]