- From: Jon Gunderson <jongund@uiuc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 14:10:36 -0600
- To: w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
User Agent Working, This is a tool we have been working on at UIUC for the past year. I just wanted everyone in the UA group to know about the tool. I would ask you to try it and if you think it is useful to help promote the use of the tool. I beleive this is one of the first tools where you get accessible markup by default, authors do not need any detailed knowledge of accessibility or HTML to use the tool to create highly accessible HTML versions of Power Point Presentations. The Accessible Web Publishing Wizard Version 1.0 is available for Microsoft Power Point. It allows authors 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 Note: Major support for this project was provided by the National Institute on Disability Rehabilitation Research (Grant #H133G030079), the Trace Center (NIDRR Grant #H133E980008) and the Illinois Board of Higher Education [1] http://www.access-board.gov/sec508/508standards.htm [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG/ 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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