Accessible Web Publishing Tool for Microsoft Office

Christy Blew, M.S.

Dan Linder, M.S.

Jon Gunderson, Ph.D.

University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign

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Why was the Web Invented?

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Answer

• Share information between scientists

• Interoperation with computer systems

• Public standards

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Why the Wizard?

• Instructors are not web developers

• Instructors don’t know about web accessibility

• More instructional materials on the web

• There are a lot of instructors

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Other Approaches

• Save slides as images and edit html

  • Need knowledge of html

  • Time consuming

• Fix up html from built-in save as feature

  • Need knowledge of html

  • Time consuming

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Size of the Problem

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Knowledge of Office Accessibility Techniques

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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

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Accessible Design

• Default markup uses universal design techniques

• Authors do not need to know about accessibility

• No extra time involved with creating accessible materials

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Goals of the Project

• Accessible HTML by default

• No knowledge of accessibility or HTML

• Prompt users for accessibility information

• Automatically generate text equivalents

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Tour: Starting the Wizard

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Tour: Splash Screen

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Tour: Presentation Information

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Tour: Image Type Prompting

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Tour: Decorative Image

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Tour: Informative Image

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Tour: Image of Chart 1

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Tour: Image of Chart 2

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Tour: Image of Chart 3

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Tour: Image of Chart 4

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Tour: Excel Chart

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Tour: Output Options

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Tour: Saving Options

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Tour: Output in Browser

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All Users Have More Options

• Text and graphical

• Text tables for charts

• Navigation controls

• Orientation information

• Valid HTML and CSS

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Next Steps

• Improve support for Word

• Provide support for Excel

• Text equivalents for graphics

  • Images of tabular tables

  • Organizational charts

• Improved styling options

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Acknowledgements

• National Institute of Disability Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR)
  (Grant# H133G030079)

• Division of Rehabilitation – Education Services

• Trace Research and Development Center
  (Grant# H133E980008)

• College of Applied Life Studies

• University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign

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Licensing

• Individual copies

  • $20.00 - $40.00 per license

  • Discounts for multiple purchases

• Site licensing options

  • $2.25 - $10.00 per license

  • Yearly subscription

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How do I get it?

Google for

“Microsoft Office Accessibility”

or

“PowerPoint Accessibility”