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From: Steve Vosloo
Date: Oct 2, 2002 7:23AM

The site says you need AccVerify 4.5.20 or above to run this ... Or am I
missing something?

Thanks
Steve



-----Original Message-----
From: Dana Louise Simberkoff [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: 02 October 2002 03:33 PM
To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
Subject: RE: Web accessibility & MS Word


Hello All-

AccVerify provides a free plug-in for Microsoft Office, that enables
Microsoft Office Users to create, verify and repair all Web documents
created with Microsoft Office for conformance with Accessibility
standards
outlined in Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act Amendments, and under
W3C
WCAG Priority 1-3 accessibility guidelines.

This solution is available for both Office XP and Office 2000. More
information is available at:
http://www.hisoftware.com/access/valueadd.html

Best Regards,
Dana Louise Simberkoff
HiSoftware Company
603-229-3055

-----Original Message-----
From: Joel Ward [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 9:16 AM
To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
Subject: Re: Web accessibility & MS Word


The Office 2000 HTML Filter 2.0 mentioned below does a good job at
cleaning
out most of that garbage in Word (and supposedly Excel too). Coupled
with
the Dreamweaver "Clean Word HTML" feature, you can get fairly clean HTML
documents, though you may lose some formatting in the process.

Keep in mind that you need to format the Word documents well for them to
convert to HTML well. If you don't use headings, paragraphs, etc.
properly,
then it becomes much harder to get anything useful even from the HTML
Filter.

For some projects, instead of exporting the HTML from Word I've ended up
saving the file as "Text Only" and then adding the formatting back using
Dreamweaver. It was just easier, and produces very clean HTML. But I
realize that's not an option for everyone, especially non-technical
folks.

I don't have any experience with Office XP, but I hear it does a better
job
than 2000...

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From: "Rachael Zubal" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 9:05 AM
Subject: Re: Web accessibility & MS Word


> I do believe that MS Word 2000 now converts word into XML which is
full of
extraneous garbage. Have others had this experience? And Power Point
no
longer easily converts into HTML either....
>
> Very annoying!
>
>
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> Moana Jarvis wrote:
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> > Since lots of HTML code is added when you save a Microsoft Word
> > document as a Web page, do screen readers have difficulties reading
a
> > Web page created by MS Word?
>
> Not sure about Word, but PowerPoint can create HTML that is entirely
> invisible to other browsers.
>
> You might checkout:
>
> Office 2000 HTML Filter 2.0
> http://office.microsoft.com/downloads/2000/Msohtmf2.aspx
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