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Re: MS Office Accessibility Checker Interface and Output Accessibility

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From: Jim Homme
Date: Mar 29, 2019 11:34AM

Hi,
While you are in the tree, you can press ALT+DOWNArrow to get choices on what to do with the current item. I just tried a simple document that had a single error and a warning about contrast. I was able to easily make a piece of alt text this way, but, being a totally blind screen reader user, I did not mess with the contrast part, because I did not know if I could get hex or decimal numbers for colors, so I could do the math. If I could somehow, even using another tool, that would be great.

Thanks.

Jim



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That's brilliant! Thanks Glen,

As someone still struggling with ribbons and the odd names MS Word now uses as labels, your practical description was a real relief.

Bim

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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of glen walker
Sent: 27 March 2019 20:38
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] MS Office Accessibility Checker Interface and Output Accessibility

It's ok, but I don't find the accessibility checker to be that great.

To get to it, I use the shortcut: alt+f, i, i, a

After it runs, the results are in a new panel. You can use f6 to navigate to each panel (landmark) in Word. The correct panel will say "Accessibility Checker tool bar". The results uses groupings and trees.
The groupings are errors, warnings, and tips. The groupings don't say they're expanded or collapsed but using spacebar or right arrow will expand it, but it won't say it was just expanded or collapsed. When you open one group, it opens them all. Kind of like an accordion except I've never seen an accordion that will open every section when one section is opened.

Under each grouping is a tree with general issues and a list of elements that have that issue. If you select an element from the tree, it gets selected in your main document, but the focus remains in the accessibility checker.

If you press tab after selecting an element in the tree, you get to the "additional information" section of the checker which has some info on why the issue is a problem.

You can press f6 until you get back to the main document to do something on the selected element.

So the interface seems to be accessible. I can get to most everything with a keyboard and stuff seems to be labeled with an accessible name.

Glen
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