Thank you Dieter, these are great resources. Unfortunately they don’t address a text shadow with invisible text. To maybe explain it further, I can’t blend the text with the shadow into the background photo because 508 accessibility demands the text be live type.

Thank you for your response and I’m still researching too in hopes I find the previous resource that showed how to do what I need. Please let me know if further clarification is needed. Again, I greatly appreciate any and all help! Thanks again Dieter!