- From: Jim Thatcher <thatch@attglobal.net>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 07:55:33 -0500
- To: iristopa@excite.com, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
John Gunderson gave a great presentation at CSUN (http://www.csun.edu/cod/conf2001/proceedings/0095gunderson.html) on a tool he has developed for converting PowerPoint to html. This would be another way to have accessible PowerPoint. The tool is available at http://www.rehab.uiuc.edu/ppt/. Here's what he says there. This Power Point Accessibility Wizard offers an alternative to PowerPoint's Web publishing feature. The standard Power Point Web Publishing option creates XML based web content that can only be used by Microsoft Internet Explorer. Even if non-XML options are selected, users cannot easily add information that is required for accessibility. This Power Point Accessibility Wizard simplifies the task of converting PowerPoint presentations to text pure HTML through an easy- to-use user interface, and automates much of the conversion of Power Point Presentations to an HTML format that includes required accessibility information. Jim jim@jimthatcher.com Accessibility Consulting http://jimthatcher.com 512-306-0931 -----Original Message----- From: w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of iris Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2001 1:18 PM To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org Subject: Re: Accessible PowerPoint Presentations personally i have not yet found a better method than extracting the text manually and putting it into properly hand-coded html. i make the original ppt file available for downloading, but since not everybody uses / can afford / wants a bloatware product like ppt, and because 'save as webpage' turns what is mainly text into inaccessible graphics, i always produce a clean html version of it manually. iris On Fri, 8 Jun 2001 17:17:11 -0400 , Morris, Lynn wrote: > Does anyone have any tips for making PowerPoint presentations accessible on > the Web? I know the stuff generated by the "save as HTML" feature in 2000 > needs tweaking, but it doesn't seem to be in a format I can edit. > _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/
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