Alt text doesn't convert from PPT to PDF

We're trying to create accessible PDFs (and have done so in the past). Two different people are trying -- one gets no alt text in the PDF, and the other gets single image alt text, but no alt text on grouped items. Any suggestions?

How is the conversion being done? What versions of PPT, Acrobat, and OS in both cases? The answer probably lies in the area of compatibility or procedure.

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Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 12:24:29 -0700
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: After 9.3 update getting error printing to Adobe PDF while converting from Powerpoint to PDF
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https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/804893
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https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/803441
https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/775410
https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/802284
https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/751043
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http://www.xkcd.com/
http://www.asofterworld.com/
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There are half a dozen or so existing help requests mentioning alt text or discussing problems with the Google Toolbar add-on, but this is not my issue, so I am opening a separate help ticket.
If you are here about "alt" text, first read any of the posts explaining that "alt" text isn't supposed to appear, it's just a quirk of IE that it sometimes does, FF4 is correct and does what the standards ask and what other browsers do. You want "title" text. The best explanation seems to be:
https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/804893
If you have the Google Toolbar installed, turn it off and see if you get them back. This is a known issue, eg:
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/740139
See also:
https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/803441
https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/775410
https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/802284
https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/751043
Now, still not getting tooltip popups for here or here?
http://www.xkcd.com/
http://www.asofterworld.com/
Neither was I. I *did* get them in safe mode, but I did a lot of resetting and mucking about without any luck. In the end, after doing a text diff between safe mode and not, of the Troubleshooting information (in the Help menu), I found that the issue might be Direct2D-related, and changed the flag "gfx.direct2d.disabled" to true in about:config. I now have tooltips back but a less efficient FF4.
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Fabulous, so now I am able to add the code (alt=" ") to any image that does not already have one. Now is there a way to do a similar task AND have the replace function fill in the text based on existing info.?
My situation is I have images with alt text AND now have to add title info. to the image (title=" ") that is a duplicate of the alt text.
SO, is there a way to tell the system to find all alt text tags and replace them with alt text and title tag, where the title tag is a duplicate of the alt info.?
FIND alt="*.*"
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Ok, thank you for the reminder about how a screen reader reads things. I am passing that along to my cohorts. A piece of the puzzle that may help is our reasoning for adding the title tag to images is that in IE8 browser the alt text is not always popping up when a user scrolls over the image, and by placing the title tag into the code then the text entered for the title tag does pop up when user scrolls over the image. Is there another/better way to do this?
FYI - So I tried the method you suggested and below is the original code AND then the resulting code. The results only added the info. entered in the replace box verbatim and didn’t copy the alt text and place it in the title tag. It even overwrote my existing alt text.:
Original code –
img alt="US 8 (WIS 35 - US 53) Corridor Preservation overview/location map" height="220" src="images/map-overview.gif" width="300"
img alt="Map key - Thick orange line is the project overview/location, thin purple and green lines are project segments, and the blue tear drop with dot in center are the project boundaries." height="174" src="../../images/map-keymultiseg.gif" width="271"
Resulting code –
img alt="$1" height="220" src="images/map-overview.gif" title="$1" width="300"
img alt="$1" height="174" src="../../images/map-keymultiseg.gif" title="$1" width="271"

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