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From: Jon Gunderson
Date: Nov 3, 2003 2:47PM

Carol,
The Accessible Web Publishing Wizard for Microsoft Office [1] doesn't
support Word right now. But in a few months we will have basic Word
support, including simple tables. It will automatically generate the
proper table labeling for you and generate valid HTML.

I know this does not help now, but in a few months it would be an option
for you.

Jon

[1] http://cita.rehab.uiuc.edu/software/office

At 10:32 AM 11/3/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I have been looking at options for accessible documents - PDF's, Word,
>etc. The documents I am working with at the moment are fairly simple,
>but have some tables and lists. In Word 2000, they read fairly well
>with JAWS, but I cannot figure out how to identify headers in the
>tables, or if that is possible. I did find the "Heading Rows Repeat"
>option for tables, but that does not seem to be picked up by JAWS, or am
>I missing something?
>
>Also, I am wondering if anyone knows if the free Word reader would work
>any differently with JAWS than the full Word 2000.
>
>I am testing with JAWS 4.51 with Word 2000 on a pc with Windows 2000.
>
>(I know and support the idea that HTML is the best way to go, but this
>is not always in my control!)
>
>Thanks,
>Carol
>
>
>
>
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Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP
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Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services
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