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Re: Are there major accessibility issues in Word, PowerPoint & Outlook

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From: Krista Greear
Date: Nov 1, 2019 10:17PM

Something I was just made aware of - there have been some recent releases
to Microsoft's Accessibility Checker updated October 14th
<https://insider.office.com/en-us/releasenotes/pc/slow> that will likely be
of interest.

- Convert to modern documents for improved accessibility
- Accessibility checker reminders when creating PDFs
- Use the Reading Order pane to group objects into logical units, add
alt text to objects, review automatically generated alt text, and remove
objects from the reading order.
- Adding slide titles from Checker
- Adding hidden slide titles from Checker

Peter Frem <https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterfrem> is the manager of the MS
Accessibility Checker and is more than happy to directly connect with you
about your feedback and comments. Feel free to contact him at
<EMAIL REMOVED> .

Krista

On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 6:56 PM Philip Kiff < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> There are a handful of such resources in various places, I think, but my
> go-to first-stop continues to be the resources provided by our mailing
> list hosts, WebAIM:
> https://webaim.org/techniques/powerpoint/
> and
> https://webaim.org/techniques/word/
>
> One of the things I like about the WebAIM resources, is that they seem
> to do a reasonably good job keeping their Word and PowerPoint resources
> up-to-date in order to reflect changes in various versions of Microsoft
> Office. Their pages are not necessarily 100% comprehensive of
> everything, but I find them consistently reliable as a good first stop.
>
> Phil.
>
> On 2019-11-01 21:44, <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote:
> > Is there such a beast providing best practice for designing powerpoints
> to
> > ensure they are accessible?
> > > > >


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Krista Greear
Accessibility and Inclusivity Crusader
​ATHEN Executive Council Vice President​
Access Technology Higher Education Network <https://athenpro.org/>