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From: Karlen Communications
Date: May 13, 2014 10:58AM

As many of you may know, I am a Microsoft Word MVP and now, as part of the
MVP program I am also a Microsoft Accessibility MVP.

Office Mix is in beta so any accessibility issues you find you can send
either to the list or to me directly and I'll forward them on to Microsoft.

On the ATHEN list I am also collecting any Office for Mac PDF issues and
feature requests. This is an ongoing collection and forwarding of
information. So if you also want to send those to me, please do.

Cheers, Karen



-----Original Message-----
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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of EA Draffan
Sent: May 13, 2014 4:41 AM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: [WebAIM] PowerPoint with office mix accessibility

We have just been experimenting with the beta of PowerPoint with Office mix
- here is a blog on the application in case you have not seen it. There are
many good points including the ability to gather results from students input
when developing simple quizzes.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/next/archive/2014/05/08/microsoft-office-mix-rein
vents-the-powerpoint-experience.aspx#.U3HXO_ldU1Y

However I am wondering if anyone else has had a mixed experience when
checking for accessibility?

Keyboard tabbing works but screen reading fails to deliver the slide content
or main quiz questions although the check boxes work. Tab order to submit
gets to Terms and Privacy before submit etc. Chrome and Firefox seem to
provide a good looking page but IE produced scroll bars and menu buttons
over the top of items and crashed on my widescreen Dell Windows 8.1 laptop.


Many thanks

Best wishes
E.A.

Mrs E.A. Draffan
WAIS, ECS , University of Southampton
Tel +44 (0)23 8059 7246
Mobile +44 (0)7976 289103
http://access.ecs.soton.ac.uk
http://www.emptech.info


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