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I recently came across a site that gave guidance about formatting a Microsoft Word 2003 document for accessibility. Yes, I know that Office 2007 is the most recent version but there are still a lot of Office 2003 users in the World and most of the advice can be transferred to the newer versions. The [...]

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I created some video trainings for Microsoft about creating a Microsoft UI Automation based screen reader. They demonstrate what the new technology can do using a reader for the New York Times. It was fun to work with the New York Times Reader as it is a very cutting edge application built with the Windows [...]

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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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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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