Re: Accessibility Guidlines for Word etc

Andrew
My NZ 2 cents worth

Using Word styles is important (I don't know how
screen readers use the styles, if at all) but in terms
of exporting a document to HTML they are important.
I found this article helpful 
http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/legal/styles.asp

Also
There is an assumption when using Word that everyone
has it (which is ok in an intranet type environment)
but if Word docs go outside the office it may be
useful to give people a link to the Word Viewer.

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q165/9/08.asp

Cheers
Graham Oliver



--- Andrew.Arch@visionaustralia.org.au wrote: > Hello,
> 
> Vision Australia Foundation has decided that it
> needs to prepare a set of
> guidelines for internal use to help staff make Word
> documents more
> accessible. MS has material to assist disabled users
> to use its Office
> products, but I could not locate any guidleines for
> authors to ensure that
> the documents, spreadsheets, etc were accessible in
> the first place. While
> we could write them from scratch (and WCAG would
> form a good starting point
> - thanks Charles), we figure that there
> must be some material 'out there somewhere' that we
> could re-use.
> 
> Can anyone point me anywhere useful? Or has anyone
> done this for their
> organisation?
> 
> Thanks,  Andrew
> _________________________________
> Dr Andrew Arch
> Manager, Internet Product Development
> Vision Australia Foundation
> Ph 613 9864 9222; Fax 613 9864 9210
> Mobile 0438 755 565
> http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/
> 
> Member, Education & Outreach Working Group,
> W3C Web Accessibility Initiative
> http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/
> 
> 
> 


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Received on Sunday, 3 June 2001 20:13:14 UTC