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From: Mark Bryant
Date: Aug 6, 2002 1:14PM

Anitra,

Thanks for your feedback. I have implemented your suggestion on the
warning.

-Mark Bryant
http://www.gcflearnfree.org

----- Original Message -----
From: "Anitra Pavka" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 3:19 PM
Subject: Re: Accessibility Courses


> Jeff Finlay wrote:
>
> > > What have you found to be inaccessible? What
> > > suggestions do you have to make PowerPoint presentations more
accessible?
> >
> > From a general viewpoint (not particular to any kind of disability) in
this case
> > the presentation immediately broke into a series of confusing frames and
I
> > couldn't figure out how to get past the first slide. Jeff
>
> My only issue is that the presentation is in a PowerPoint format.
Even on my
> Windows 2000 machine, I could only access the presentation using Internet
Explorer
> 5.x or higher. I also tried it in Netscape 4.78, Netscape 6.2.3, and
Opera 6.04.
> In all of these other browsers, I either couldn't get any text to display
or I got
> an odd outline of the text, but nothing displayed correctly (or at all) in
the frame
> that contains the slides' content.
> The information was interesting, especially the statistics you
gathered. I
> think it's a real shame that it's limited to users of only a particular
browser
> base. I worry that *nix users (or others without Internet Explorer based
user
> agents) may not access this information effectively, or maybe at all. For
example,
> I tried it out in a recent copy of Mozilla under Linux (RedHat) and got
the same
> results as when I tried Netscape 6.
> Until you can convert it into a more usable/accessible format, I
suggest you
> warn users it may not work correctly unless they're using a recent version
of an
> Internet Explorer-based user agent. This way it at least removes the
(unpleasant)
> element of surprise if the presentation doesn't display correctly.
>
>
> -- Anitra Pavka
> Web Designer & Accessibility Advocate
> Accessibility Weblog-> http://www.anitrapavka.com
>
>
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