1. Accessible Web Publishing Tool for Microsoft Office Jon Gunderson, Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign

2. Why was the Web Invented?

3. Answer Share information between scientists Interoperation with computer systems Public standards

4. What are some of the myths of the web? Graphical medium Users have no control over rendering Authors have all the control over rendering

5. Problem Instructors are not web developers Instructors don’t know about accessibility More instructional materials on the web There are a lot of instructors

6. Size of the Problem

7. Knowledge of Office Accessibility Techniques

8. Problems with Power Point Web Publishing Features Limited ability to create text equivalents Default format is VML Default markup can only be viewed in latest browsers Markup does not meet WCAG W3C requirements

9. Accessible Repair Process 1. Create materials 2. Check with accessibility tool 3. Decipher accessibility report 4. Fix accessibility problems 5. Repeat process until no problems

10. Accessible Repair Problems Time consuming Difficult to understand reports Authoring tools like MS Office do not support editing of markup Results are often still inaccessible

11. Accessible Design Default markup uses universal design techniques Authors do not need to know about accessibility No extra time involved with creating accessible materials

12. Goals of the Project Accessible HTML by default No knowledge of accessibility or HTML Prompt users for accessibility information Automatically generate text equivalents

13. Demonstration of Wizard

14. Features Text and graphical Keyboard support (Accesskeys) Text tables for charts Navigation controls Orientation information Valid HTML

15. Next Steps Improve support for Word Provide support for Excel Text equivalents for graphics – Images of tabular tables – Organizational charts Improved styling options SVG output

16. Acknowledgements National Institute of Disability Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) (Grant# H133G030079) Division of Rehabilitation – Education Services Trace Research and Development Center (NIDRR Grant# H133E980008) College of Applied Life Studies University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign

17. How do I get it? http://cita.rehab.uiuc.edu/software/office Google for “Microsoft Office Accessibility” or “PowerPoint Accessibility”