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Re: Is there a way to export accessible html from a Powerpoint presentation - if so, what software is involved?

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From: Chagnon | PubCom
Date: Jun 24, 2013 11:28AM

Birkir wrote: "is it an exercise in frustration and futility?"

Futility, yes.
Because you're depriving some of us of the greatest sleep-inducing aid ever
invented - The PowerPoint Presentation.
Some of us have spent years honing the highly-sought skill of sleeping with
our eyes open in a darkened, overheated room while a boring speaker drones
on for hours accompanied by an even more boring, butt-ugly PowerPoint
presentation with microscopic type that can't be read from the back of the
room. Some even achieve guru status by learning not to snore.

And you want to deprive us of this extra sleep time by converting the PPT to
HTML? <grin>

Seriously, other than making an accessible PowerPoint PPT file, and then
exporting an accessible PDF from it, I haven't used any tools that can
extract it to HTML (they do exist, I just can't recall them or how well they
do the job). However, you can extract the Acrobat PDF to HTML webpages with
Acrobat 11, but by this time they look even worse than the original PPT
file.

Deque probably has something to do this. If not, I bet they will by the time
this thread is closed. (That's a compliment, guys!)

-Bevi Chagnon
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