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Re: PowerPoint Accessibility Question?

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From: Sailesh Panchang
Date: Jun 1, 2012 2:36PM

Well all 'viewer' applications like WordViewer, ExcelViewer or
PPTViewer have never been accessible.
I'd say using an HTML slide presentation is a better choice.
Sailesh



On 6/1/12, Jared Smith < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> By my understanding, your summary of PPT accessibility is spot on.
> Because WebAIM (and prefereably this list content) is focused on *web*
> accessibility, for presentation content online, we first recommend to
> use about anything other than PowerPoint, but when PowerPoint must be
> used, typically exporting it to PDF and fixing accessibility issues in
> the PDF provides a much more accessible experience.
>
> Jared
> > > >