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From: Jennifer Sutton
Date: May 13, 2016 2:17PM

Perhaps an additional way to work for change with Microsoft products is
to use their Customer Feedback forums, where issues can be voted up.
Note that I suggest this as an additional way; I'm not meaning to take
over this original thread.


I see Microsoft promoting these forums quite frequently, via their
Twitter channels, which I expect some of you don't monitor.


Maybe what could be effective would be to posts some specific issues,
and then post here to the list with the links to them, so people can
chime in there, where Microsoft is more likely to see. Maybe Microsoft
people lurk on this list, but I can't remember active participation from
any of them here.


I did a quick Google search, but I do encourage folks to explore
further. Below my name are some links to forums that may be appropriate.


Best,

Jennifer


One for Office 365:

https://*office*365.*uservoice*.com


One for General Office issues:

https://*office*.*uservoice*.com


One for developers of Office extensions:

https://*office*spdev.*uservoice*.com/



On 5/13/2016 1:02 PM, Moore,Michael (Accessibility) (HHSC) wrote:
> Times two Bevi - They can start with better support for accessible tables!
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> Mike Moore
> Accessibility Coordinator
> Texas Health and Human Services Commission
> Civil Rights Office
> (512) 438-3431 (Office)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Chagnon | PubCom
> Sent: Friday, May 13, 2016 2:46 PM
> To: 'WebAIM Discussion List' < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Microsoft Accessibility Collaboration Opportunities
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> About the Microsoft testing groups:
> Will either of them or maybe another group be testing the features within MS Office products that allow content creators to make accessible Word and PDFs?
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> Many bugs or "deficiencies" are in MS Word that need to be identified, submitted to Microsoft, and corrected by their engineers.
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> New tools within the office suite are needed to create better, more accessible documents by content creators.
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> Will either of these 2 groups address accessibility from that angle? Or should a third group be organized?
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> —Bevi Chagnon, PubCom
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> (who's just completed 3 straight months of teching accessible documents from Word and is very tired of telling content creators they can't do "x" because it creates an unaccessible PDF that must be hand-remediated in Acrobat.")
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