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From: Angela French
Date: Oct 6, 2011 2:48PM

Not sure the protocol for changing subject lines in threads, but can we do that on this one and keep this document viewer discussion going?
Angela French


>Here in Texas we are wrestling with the issue of accessible viewers.
>In testing the Office document views from Microsoft are NOT accessible to a
>screen reader (Jaws 12).
>Additionally if you want user to view a .docx file they must also download the
>MS Office Compatibility Pack. Then they must first convert the file to .doc,
>then open in WordViewer. This is starting to get very cumbersome for the
>end user.
>
>From the viewer site:
>http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=4
>The Word Viewer, together with the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for
>Word, Excel, and PowerPoint File Formats, allows you open Word documents
>saved in the following formats:
>
> Word Document (.docx)
> Word Macro-Enabled Document (.docm)
> Rich Text Format (.rtf)
> Text (.txt)
> Web Page formats (.htm, .html, .mht, .mhtml)
> WordPerfect 5.x (.wpd)
> WordPerfect 6.x (.doc, .wpd)
> Works 6.0 (.wps)
> Works 7.0 (.wps)
> XML (.xml)
>
>Acrobat Reader is accessible.
>
>We are considering linking to IBM Lotus Symphony , which will read MSOffice
>office documents and is accessible (still doing a bit of
>testing) BUT it is a 450+ mb download. There must be an easier less
>convoluted solution.
>
>Jim
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