- From: Jon Gunderson <jongund@uiuc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 08:50:58 -0500
- To: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Version 2 will come out shortly and will have much improved support for Microsoft Word. WMF images are treated like any other image right now. Users will be prompted whether the image is a decoative image (ALT text only), informative images (ALT text + Long description, or a table/Chart which the user would be prompted to a text table tool. Right now all images are converted to PNG format. We hope to support SVG in future version of the tool. URL to Version 1.0: http://cita.rehab.uiuc.edu/software/office Jon ---- Original message ---- >Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 07:22:40 +0100 (BST) >From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk> >Subject: Re: ACollab Work Groups 1.1 Content accessible? >To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org > > >> There is a tool to conver Microsoft Office documents to >> accessible valid HTML. > >How does it handle images, in particular Windows Metafile images? One >of the long standing problems with the HTML based browsing technologies >is that there is no vector graphics format that can be relied upon >by authors (SVG is not implemented by IE, and seems to have wandered >off to become a Flash competitor, but MSWord has had a vector image >format for a very long time, even if its authoring support has, some >times, been poor). > >How does it handle MSWord documents that are not structurally marked up? >I believe these cause problems for PDF tagging as well. (It is not >uncommon for people to tab round line ends, and almost universal for them >not to use the built in styles for headings, etc.) > Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services MC-574 College of Applied Life Studies University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign 1207 S. Oak Street, Champaign, IL 61820 Voice: (217) 244-5870 Fax: (217) 333-0248 E-mail: jongund@uiuc.edu WWW: http://cita.rehab.uiuc.edu/ WWW: http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~jongund
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