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Re: MSWord forms accessibility

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From: Karlen Communications
Date: Jun 10, 2011 5:06AM

Normally you can't add the Word form controls to the Word document and
convert it to PDF retaining the Word form controls. The form controls for a
PDF document usually have to be added in either Acrobat or LiveCycle
Designer. Word can be used to design the layout of a form. Does the
NetCentric tool keep the Word form controls when converting to tagged PDF?
Is this the PAWS tool? Can that form then be validated in either Acrobat or
CommonLook?

Cheers, Karen



-----Original Message-----
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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Ryan E. Benson
Sent: June-10-11 12:30 AM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] MSWord forms accessibility

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> >
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> 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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