Archive for January, 2008

January 9th 2008
Adding Alt Text to Embedded Objects in Office

Posted under Office User
Written by: Mike Adams

Data accessibility is becoming a very critical part of software development but I think many of us forget to address accessibility where it is most common in our day to day computer use.  There are many different Microsoft Office applications so I’m really only going to address some accessibility issues in PowerPoint and Word in [...]

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January 9th 2008
Testing Style Sheets

Posted under Testing
Written by: Mike Adams

Testing Style Sheets is the easy part, figuring how to do it can take a little more time.  I’ll do my best with this blog to keep things simple so you can help make your web based product accessible and show you how you can test it.  Cascading Style Sheets or CSS is a very [...]

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January 9th 2008
Adding Alt Text to a Watermark in Microsoft Word

Posted under Accessibility and MS Office & Office User
Written by: Jeff Singleton

A client of ours recently came to us with a problem. They wanted to add a watermark to their document that indicated the document was a DRAFT copy. Since this particular client needed to make sure their documents met the Section 508 requirements it was important that screen readers such as JAWS or Window Eyes [...]

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January 9th 2008
Dialog Window Text and the JAWS Cursor

Posted under Testing
Written by: Jeff Singleton

Some dialog windows do not interact with JAWS in the expected way. When this happens there is text within the dialog that does not get read. Typically you will hear JAWS read only the buttons on the dialog and if a link exists you will hear that read as well when you arrow through the [...]

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