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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Mon, Jun 24 2013 10:58AM
Subject: Is there a way to export accessible html from a Powerpoint presentation - if so, what software is involved?
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Hey gang
Just curious, is there a way to do this?
I do not see any "save as html" option in Powerpoint.
Also I am not sure how accessible the outcome would be.
I know Commonlook has products to export PP to accessible PDF, but I
do not know about html.
Is this an experiment worth undertaking, or is it an exercise in
frustration and futility?
Any pointers always well come.
Thank you, yea wise clan of fellow accessibility enthusiasts.
-Birkir
From: Chagnon | PubCom
Date: Mon, Jun 24 2013 11:28AM
Subject: Re: Is there a way to export accessible html from a Powerpoint presentation - if so, what software is involved?
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Birkir wrote: "is it an exercise in frustration and futility?"
Futility, yes.
Because you're depriving some of us of the greatest sleep-inducing aid ever
invented - The PowerPoint Presentation.
Some of us have spent years honing the highly-sought skill of sleeping with
our eyes open in a darkened, overheated room while a boring speaker drones
on for hours accompanied by an even more boring, butt-ugly PowerPoint
presentation with microscopic type that can't be read from the back of the
room. Some even achieve guru status by learning not to snore.
And you want to deprive us of this extra sleep time by converting the PPT to
HTML? <grin>
Seriously, other than making an accessible PowerPoint PPT file, and then
exporting an accessible PDF from it, I haven't used any tools that can
extract it to HTML (they do exist, I just can't recall them or how well they
do the job). However, you can extract the Acrobat PDF to HTML webpages with
Acrobat 11, but by this time they look even worse than the original PPT
file.
Deque probably has something to do this. If not, I bet they will by the time
this thread is closed. (That's a compliment, guys!)
-Bevi Chagnon
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From: Patrick Burke
Date: Mon, Jun 24 2013 11:49AM
Subject: Re: Is there a way to export accessible html from a Powerpoint presentation - if so, what software is involved?
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Hi Birkir,
You have to export from Powerpoint using the "Outline/RTF" choice.
Then it would be possible to convert that file to HTML or other formats.
I have had better luck using Robobraille's file conversion service:
http://www.robobraille.org/web3/
There are still some slide layouts that cause problems, but
Robobraille rescued more content for me than the RTF export did.
Patrick
At 09:58 AM 6/24/2013, Birkir R. Gunnarsson wrote:
>Hey gang
>
>Just curious, is there a way to do this?
>I do not see any "save as html" option in Powerpoint.
>Also I am not sure how accessible the outcome would be.
>I know Commonlook has products to export PP to accessible PDF, but I
>do not know about html.
>Is this an experiment worth undertaking, or is it an exercise in
>frustration and futility?
>
>Any pointers always well come.
>Thank you, yea wise clan of fellow accessibility enthusiasts.
>-Birkir
>>>
From: McMorland, Gabriel
Date: Mon, Jun 24 2013 1:38PM
Subject: Re: Is there a way to export accessible html from a Powerpoint presentation - if so, what software is involved?
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How would I convert the outline/rtf export to html?
From: Patrick Burke
Date: Mon, Jun 24 2013 2:22PM
Subject: Re: Is there a way to export accessible html from a Powerpoint presentation - if so, what software is involved?
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At 12:38 PM 6/24/2013, McMorland, Gabriel wrote:
>How would I convert the outline/rtf export to html?
I use MS Word. Probably other word processors will handle it also.
Patrick
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