Document Accessibility Toolbar Introducing the Document Accessibility Toolbar PWAC 2019 12/02/2019 Matthew Putland Digital Access © Digital Access Vision Australia: All material contained within this file remains the sole property of Vision Australia. No part can be reproduced, used or copied without the express permission of Vision Australia.

Vision Australia The leading provider of blindness and low vision services in Australia enabling tens of thousands of children and adults to live the lives they choose The Digital Access Team are pan-disability Leading accessibility consultancy in Australia and members of the W3C and IAAP Also mention audio books service, radio station, training, library.

Web Content Ensuring the accessibility of web content is vital to creating an accessible website. Web content often rapidly updates. Web content is often written by non- technical people. We need content to be accessible, but we also need it to be quick, and we need it to be easy.

Where does web content start? 80% This was from a study conducted by Vision Australia and our partners. I’m not just talking about Word documents that get uploaded online, but also…

Word conversion Word gets converted into different formats, such as PDF and HTML. If you make the original Word document accessible, then the conversion will also be accessible, or at least much easier to make accessible.

Document Accessibility Toolbar Let’s make your Word document accessible, in an easy and fast way.

Document Accessibility Toolbar You can download the toolbar for free on the Vision Australia website https://www.visionaustralia.org/ services/digital-access/document- accessibility-toolbar

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