A new authoring tool (sort of)

Publishing to the Microsoft PowerPoint presentation format, and doing 
it accessibly would be a big win. Has anyone thought about evaluating 
this tool?

cheers

Chaals

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> From: "David Poehlman" <poehlman1@comcast.net>
> Date: Tue Oct 14, 2003  18:24:18 Europe/Zurich
> To: "wai-ig list" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
> Subject: Fw:      ANNOUNCEMENT: Accessible Web Publishing Wizard 
> Version 1.0 for              Microsoft Power Point
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jon Gunderson" <jongund@UIUC.EDU>
> To: <EASI@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 11:52 AM
> Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: Accessible Web Publishing Wizard Version 1.0 for
> Microsoft Power Point
>
>
> The Accessible Web Publishing Wizard Version 1.0 is available for 
> Microsoft
> Power Point.  It allows instructors to create highly accessible HTML
> versions of Power Point Presentations with little or no knowledge of
> accessibility or HTML coding techniques.  The tool makes it easy to not
> only conform to Section 508 requirements[1], but also to conform at the
> Double-AA level to the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines[2].  I
> encourage anyone who uses Power Point to create presentations to try 
> this
> tool to make them accessible to people with disabilities.
>
> The free download is available from:
> http://cita.rehab.uiuc.edu/software/office/index.html
>
> Please feel free to share this URL with other lists or people you feel
> could benefit from this tool.
>
> Jon
>
> [1] http://www.access-board.gov/sec508/508standards.htm
> [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG/
>
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> Benefits of Accessible IT Design:
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Charles McCathieNevile                          Fundación Sidar
charles@sidar.org                                http://www.sidar.org

Received on Sunday, 19 October 2003 11:38:17 UTC