MapInfo Pro

I'm currently trying to make some of our documents more accessible. While obviously maps are never going to be that accessible, I'd like to at least add some alt text to the jpgs or whatever I produce.
I was presuming that each layout would have metadata like a name and description stored somewhere, and that this would get exported when i produced a jpg or whatever? If so, how do I find and edit it, if not would it not be a good idea for accessibility to be able to do this?

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Martin Burroughs
Oldham Council
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Martin,

If each layout is saved as a workspace you can grab the name and location of that workspace as smart text :

$mb{GetCurrentWorkspacePath$()}


Lots of other tips here from Peter : 

https://community.precisely.com/communities/community-home/digestviewer/viewthread?GroupId=19&MID=1949&CommunityKey=fe4d1ee2-f1c6-4307-87d2-00bea1344885&tab=digestviewer&ReturnUrl=%2Fcommunities%2Fcommunity-home%2Fdigestviewer%3Ftab%3Ddigestviewer%26CommunityKey%3Dfe4d1ee2-f1c6-4307-87d2-00bea1344885

HTH

Nick

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Nick Hall
Mapchester LTD
Manchester
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Original Message:
Sent: 11-05-2021 10:36
From: Martin Burroughs
Subject: layout accessibility

I'm currently trying to make some of our documents more accessible. While obviously maps are never going to be that accessible, I'd like to at least add some alt text to the jpgs or whatever I produce.
I was presuming that each layout would have metadata like a name and description stored somewhere, and that this would get exported when i produced a jpg or whatever? If so, how do I find and edit it, if not would it not be a good idea for accessibility to be able to do this?

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Martin Burroughs
Oldham Council
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Thanks Nick, this is interesting and powerful but not sure it does what I'm looking for (probs cos I was too vague!)

So when i embed a jpg in a word doc, or pdf or whatever, I'm wanting that to pull through alt text, ie the stuff you sometimes see as hoverovers. By doing this, I think it'll work better with screen readers and provide better accessibility. I presume it would get the alt text from the jpg metadata (seems to be what screen readers do with other files). And for a jpg produced from a mapinfo layout, I guess that would have to come from the layout properties. I just can't see where those properties are or whether Mapinfo carries them over (as it sensibly should) when it creates images.

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Martin Burroughs
Oldham Council
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Original Message:
Sent: 11-05-2021 11:40
From: Nick Hall
Subject: layout accessibility

Martin,

If each layout is saved as a workspace you can grab the name and location of that workspace as smart text :

$mb{GetCurrentWorkspacePath$()}


Lots of other tips here from Peter :

https://community.precisely.com/communities/community-home/digestviewer/viewthread?GroupId=19&MID=1949&CommunityKey=fe4d1ee2-f1c6-4307-87d2-00bea1344885&tab=digestviewer&ReturnUrl=%2Fcommunities%2Fcommunity-home%2Fdigestviewer%3Ftab%3Ddigestviewer%26CommunityKey%3Dfe4d1ee2-f1c6-4307-87d2-00bea1344885

HTH

Nick

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Nick Hall
Mapchester LTD
Manchester

Original Message:
Sent: 11-05-2021 10:36
From: Martin Burroughs
Subject: layout accessibility

I'm currently trying to make some of our documents more accessible. While obviously maps are never going to be that accessible, I'd like to at least add some alt text to the jpgs or whatever I produce.
I was presuming that each layout would have metadata like a name and description stored somewhere, and that this would get exported when i produced a jpg or whatever? If so, how do I find and edit it, if not would it not be a good idea for accessibility to be able to do this?

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Martin Burroughs
Oldham Council
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Hi Martin
Have you tried all the PDF options and settings (Properties button). Perhaps that is more of what you are looking for?
Plenty of options and then Layered PDFs or Add Attribute Data to the PDF.

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John Ievers
CDR Group
Hope Valley, United Kingdom
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Original Message:
Sent: 11-05-2021 11:58
From: Martin Burroughs
Subject: layout accessibility

Thanks Nick, this is interesting and powerful but not sure it does what I'm looking for (probs cos I was too vague!)

So when i embed a jpg in a word doc, or pdf or whatever, I'm wanting that to pull through alt text, ie the stuff you sometimes see as hoverovers. By doing this, I think it'll work better with screen readers and provide better accessibility. I presume it would get the alt text from the jpg metadata (seems to be what screen readers do with other files). And for a jpg produced from a mapinfo layout, I guess that would have to come from the layout properties. I just can't see where those properties are or whether Mapinfo carries them over (as it sensibly should) when it creates images.

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Martin Burroughs
Oldham Council

Original Message:
Sent: 11-05-2021 11:40
From: Nick Hall
Subject: layout accessibility

Martin,

If each layout is saved as a workspace you can grab the name and location of that workspace as smart text :

$mb{GetCurrentWorkspacePath$()}


Lots of other tips here from Peter :

https://community.precisely.com/communities/community-home/digestviewer/viewthread?GroupId=19&MID=1949&CommunityKey=fe4d1ee2-f1c6-4307-87d2-00bea1344885&tab=digestviewer&ReturnUrl=%2Fcommunities%2Fcommunity-home%2Fdigestviewer%3Ftab%3Ddigestviewer%26CommunityKey%3Dfe4d1ee2-f1c6-4307-87d2-00bea1344885

HTH

Nick

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Nick Hall
Mapchester LTD
Manchester

Original Message:
Sent: 11-05-2021 10:36
From: Martin Burroughs
Subject: layout accessibility

I'm currently trying to make some of our documents more accessible. While obviously maps are never going to be that accessible, I'd like to at least add some alt text to the jpgs or whatever I produce.
I was presuming that each layout would have metadata like a name and description stored somewhere, and that this would get exported when i produced a jpg or whatever? If so, how do I find and edit it, if not would it not be a good idea for accessibility to be able to do this?

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Martin Burroughs
Oldham Council
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Thanks John. That is interesting, but I'd then need an extra step of combining a large number of pdf's into one doc, and I'm not clear even then whether it would produce alt text on each image! Shame the image route isn't there, but we'll have to work round it I guess.

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Martin Burroughs
Oldham Council
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Original Message:
Sent: 12-03-2021 05:29
From: John Ievers
Subject: layout accessibility

Hi Martin
Have you tried all the PDF options and settings (Properties button). Perhaps that is more of what you are looking for?
Plenty of options and then Layered PDFs or Add Attribute Data to the PDF.

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John Ievers
CDR Group
Hope Valley, United Kingdom

Original Message:
Sent: 11-05-2021 11:58
From: Martin Burroughs
Subject: layout accessibility

Thanks Nick, this is interesting and powerful but not sure it does what I'm looking for (probs cos I was too vague!)

So when i embed a jpg in a word doc, or pdf or whatever, I'm wanting that to pull through alt text, ie the stuff you sometimes see as hoverovers. By doing this, I think it'll work better with screen readers and provide better accessibility. I presume it would get the alt text from the jpg metadata (seems to be what screen readers do with other files). And for a jpg produced from a mapinfo layout, I guess that would have to come from the layout properties. I just can't see where those properties are or whether Mapinfo carries them over (as it sensibly should) when it creates images.

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Martin Burroughs
Oldham Council

Original Message:
Sent: 11-05-2021 11:40
From: Nick Hall
Subject: layout accessibility

Martin,

If each layout is saved as a workspace you can grab the name and location of that workspace as smart text :

$mb{GetCurrentWorkspacePath$()}


Lots of other tips here from Peter :

https://community.precisely.com/communities/community-home/digestviewer/viewthread?GroupId=19&MID=1949&CommunityKey=fe4d1ee2-f1c6-4307-87d2-00bea1344885&tab=digestviewer&ReturnUrl=%2Fcommunities%2Fcommunity-home%2Fdigestviewer%3Ftab%3Ddigestviewer%26CommunityKey%3Dfe4d1ee2-f1c6-4307-87d2-00bea1344885

HTH

Nick

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Nick Hall
Mapchester LTD
Manchester

Original Message:
Sent: 11-05-2021 10:36
From: Martin Burroughs
Subject: layout accessibility

I'm currently trying to make some of our documents more accessible. While obviously maps are never going to be that accessible, I'd like to at least add some alt text to the jpgs or whatever I produce.
I was presuming that each layout would have metadata like a name and description stored somewhere, and that this would get exported when i produced a jpg or whatever? If so, how do I find and edit it, if not would it not be a good idea for accessibility to be able to do this?

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Martin Burroughs
Oldham Council
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