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From: Karlen Communications
Date: Aug 17, 2016 3:05PM

In Windows, the Accessibility report opens in a pane to the right of the document. Use F6 to move into it.

Cheers, Karen

Sent from my iPad

> On Aug 17, 2016, at 4:26 PM, Jamous, JP < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> I tried to check out a few documents with it, but I got no reports. I use JAWS 17.
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> Isn't it supposed to show the issues under the Info tab in Office 2013 for Windows?
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> Jean-Pierre Jamous
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> UI Accessibility Team
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Karlen Communications
> Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2016 3:24 PM
> To: 'WebAIM Discussion List' < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Accessibility Checker - Office 2016 for Mac
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> Here are the rules that the Accessibility Checker uses:
> https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Check-for-accessibility-issues-A16F6DE0-2F39-4A2B-8BD8-5AD801426C7F
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> Cheers, Karen
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of John E. Brandt
> Sent: August 17, 2016 3:37 PM
> To: 'WebAIM Discussion List' < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Accessibility Checker - Office 2016 for Mac
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> First, you need the latest version of MS Office (MSO) for Mac, which is the 2016 version, and you need the latest updates that came out a few days ago (August updates). If you subscribe to Office 365, you can install MSO on up to five devices (Macs, Windows and IOS devices or any combination) and they all update automatically. You may need to run the MS Update to ensure that you have the latest updates. BTW, the update for PowerPoint came out 2-3 days after the ones for Excel and Word.
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> Basically, the Accessibility Checker (AC) is a tool that reviews your document and cites issues related to accessibility following most of the standard WCAG rules (e.g., Headings, ALT description, etc.). There are some additional "Warning" things that MS has thrown in like "Repeated blank characters."
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> See "Guidance on Applying WCAG 2.0 to Non-Web Information and Communications Technologies (WCAG2ICT)": https://www.w3.org/TR/wcag2ict/
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> When you use the AC tool, a new window pops up with the list of Errors and Warnings, and when you click on the individual Error