Select the “Generate a description for me” option to do so.Īs you can see, PowerPoint offered “A close up of a logo” as the alt text for our object, and lets the user know the description was automatically generated. You also have the options of letting PowerPoint generate a description of the selected object for you. To mark something as decorative, check the box next to “Mark as decorative.” Once you do, you’ll notice the box in which you would manually type the alt text is grayed out and displays a message letting you know that screen readers will not pick up the description. Office uses a stylistic border as something you might want to mark as decorative, which is a good example. If you mark something as decorative, then that’s what it should be-an object that is aesthetically pleasing but adds no value to the actual content.
You can manually type the alt text into the content box (1), have PowerPoint generate a description for you (2), or mark the object as decorative (3).
Regardless of which method you choose, you will see the “Alt Text” pane appear on the right-hand side of the window.
