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From: Angela French
Date: Jul 31, 2017 9:30AM

Thank you!

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Angela,

I haven't seen anything new from the US federal government yet, but I recommend the Canadian Accessible Digital Office Document (ADOD) Project. Their advice is based on WCAG2 and ATAG1. They have guidance for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint (Win and Mac), Google docs, OpenOffice, iWorks, Corel, and PDF documents.

I haven't done an in-depth comparison, but I think you'll find that there is very little different from the existing document guidance offered for Section 508 compliance.

The ADOD project has been developed by the Inclusive Design Research Centre, OCAD University as part of an EnAbling Change Partnership project with the Government of Ontario and UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization). It can be found at http://adod.idrc.ocad.ca/

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Sarah E. Bourne
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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