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Re: PowerPoint 2007 charts and graphs accessibility

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From: Karlen Communications
Date: Jan 12, 2011 6:00AM

Keep in mind that it depends on which view of the presentation you are
providing to participants. If you are giving them the presentation or PPTX
document then Excel and Word content that has been embedded will be
accessible and you can open the original Excel or Word document from the
slide/provided it is in the same folder as the PowerPoint document and is
available to participants. However if you provide the PowerPoint show, the
OLE objects such as the Excel or Word documents or pieces of content from
them will not be accessible and will be objects that require Alt Text. It is
the same if you convert the PowerPoint document to tagged PDF...those linked
objects that were accessible in the Normal slide view of the presentation
are figures that require Alt Text.

I did a workshop yesterday on accessible Office documents and the key for
PowerPoint is to decide how the PowerPoint document will be distributed
before you begin adding content because that determines what type of content
you can add to slides.

Cheers, Karen