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Re: MSWord forms accessibility

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From: Ryan E. Benson
Date: Jun 9, 2011 10:33PM

While it pains me to say it, your best bet is to design in Word and
export it to PDF. As I mentioned before, the best tool for this is
NetCentric's PAW. Currently, you need to use the legacy text boxes
versus the new types for them to be seen by PAW and to be put into the
PDF. While I haven't dug into it much, the new "textboxes" aren't
actual textboxes but are simply placeholders that vanish.

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Ryan E. Benson



On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Hoffman, Allen < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> It sure would be nice to have real testing tools for this kind of thing.
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> From: Debbie Malone [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
> Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 7:55 AM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] MSWord forms accessibility
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> I didn't realize that the content controls were not accessible. I don't use JAWS
> myself, but all the articles I read said to use them. I mistakingly assumed that
> the ToolTip did not work. I will definitely change them over to legacy controls.
> Thanks for the info.
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> Debbie Malone
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