Posted under Accessibility and MS Office & Accessibility and PDF
Written by: Jeff Singleton
Overview
Many Microsoft Word documents are exported to PDF files for the purpose distribution to a wide range of users. How well a Word document converts to a PDF file has a lot to do with the document design which is also going have a bearing the accessibility of the document.
Below are some suggestions on how [...]
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 [...]
Read more: Adding Alt Text to Embedded Objects in Office...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 [...]
Read more: Testing Style Sheets...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 [...]
Read more: Adding Alt Text to a Watermark in Microsoft Word...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 [...]
Read more: Dialog Window Text and the JAWS Cursor...Posted under Accessibility and JAWS & Accessibility and MS Office & Accessibility and Window Eyes
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 [...]
Read more: Adding Alt Text to a Watermark in Microsoft Word...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 [...]
Read more: Testing Style Sheets...Posted under Testing
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 [...]
Read more: Adding Alt Text to Embedded Objects in Office...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 [...]
Read more: Dialog Window Text and the JAWS Cursor...