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Re: PowerPoint 2007 charts and graphs accessibility

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From: Michael.Moore
Date: Jan 12, 2011 7:18AM

One additional item to consider is whether or not the user is familiar with PPT. We have found that the skill level among screen reader users with both PPT and Excel really varies and is generally dependent upon whether they regularly use the program as a part of their job. Thus people who use screen readers and give a lot of presentations are highly skilled and can get to embedded content like spreadsheets, but the average user has not been able to do this. We recommend keeping things simple for PPTs that are distributed to a general audience.

Mike Moore
(512) 424-4159