About Accessibility

Accessibility in Microsoft Office 2010

Microsoft Office 2010 continues our dedication to making Microsoft Office products more available to people with disabilities, as well as helping all users create more accessible content. In addition to many features that you might be familiar with, Office 2010 includes several new and updated accessibility features.

Accessibility Checker Word 2010, Excel 2010, and PowerPoint 2010 include an Accessibility Checker that helps users create more accessible content. By identifying areas that might be challenging for users with disabilities to view or use, and providing a task pane to review those areas, users can fix potential problems with their content.

Backstage view Actions previously found on the File menu or Microsoft Office button, such as Print and Save, can now be found in the Microsoft Office Backstage view. By presenting commands more logically and providing more detail, users will have more context and information about [...] Continue Reading…

Google’s Wonder Wheel – I wonder where is accessibility

Google’s wonder wheel is a flash product that hit the market in 2009. This is a good SEO tool and helps in building keywords. However, when checked for accessibility it showed some drawbacks.

The wonder wheel can be found using the steps mentioned below.

• Go to Google’s homepage and type what you are looking for. The search will return results that can be viewed in a number of different presentations – visual forms.

• The left side of the page has a lot of options.

• Click the one that says wonder wheels.
• Sometimes, these options do not show. In such cases, click the More button found on the left hand side.

•When you click the wonder wheel option on the left side of the page the search results are returned in the form of [...] Continue Reading…

Converting Microsoft Word to Adobe PDF

Adobe PDF usage is popular as it is a free and open source tool. Accessible Microsoft Word documents can be converted to Accessible Adobe PDF documents. This process of conversion is easy and does not take much time.

To learn to build accessible word Documents, visit Accessible Microsoft Word Documents.

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Download the Adobe plug-in
This conversion requires the Adobe conversion Plug-in that directly gets integrated to work with Microsoft Word. If you do not have this plug-in download it from the link

DOWNLOAD THE ADOBE PDF PLUG-IN

After you press the download button, you are redirected to a new page where you have to select start download.
This downloads and saves a file on your system.
This file asks you to save it.
Open to file to start installation.

Install the Adobe Plug-in

After the download, install the plug-in so that it can be used.
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How to make Accessible Microsoft Word documents

How to make Accessible Microsoft Word documents
Objective:
Access – ability is the boom of the industry. With its newest inventions and researches, it is one of the upcoming criteria that is to be taken care of when deploying documents on the web. For sure, the use of accessible documents is more popular and easy. To be a part of the accessible world all the documents be it PDF or MS s care is taken all the way. To convert accessible Microsoft word documents to PDF please refer to Microsoft Word to PDF conversion.

This article deals with complete training on successfully building accessible Microsoft s.

The simplest way to build accessibility into documents is to make a list of checkpoints and follow it. To start with we make a list for our MS s. The points in the checklist are the objectives of the article. After reading the article you should be [...] Continue Reading…

Web Developer Extension

The Web developer extension tool places a menu and a toolbar on your browser. This tool is a help assistant that provides a helping hand to increase the accessibility of the web sites or even to accelerate their knowledge. This toolbar deals with enabling – disabling styles, images and other such features that when used can change the look of the web site.
Download

To complete the installation of the downloaded extension restart the browser.

WAVE Toolbar goes online

The WAVE limitation of using Firefox as the default browser, no more exists. WAVE can now be accessed from anywhere in the world. To be accessible in the true sense and get a completely accessible document is now the simplest way to check for accessibility.

The WAVE tool can also be used through any web browser. Taking advantage of this tool through any browser does not even require a download.

Just follow the simple steps to your way towards accessibility.

Type / Navigate to the following URL: http://wave.webaim.org/
The following options are available:

Enter a web site address –

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If the user has a website that is ready this option can be used. You will have to enter the URL of the website.
This allows a user to enter in a URL to a public web page to be checked by WAVE.

Upload a file –

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Accessibility – Best judged?

Questions about accessibility testing, standards and best methodologies are still in the air as more and more people are getting to know about accessibility and its related discussion topics. The simplest of these questions could be the art of testing for accessibility. But, how do we test accessibility? Who does it? What tools are required and in the end are the results optimal?

An eye witnessed so called accessibility test was carried out in a manner neither you nor I would approve. I knew a guy in my university called Joe. He was visually impaired and thus used a lot of assistive technologies to help him navigate the web world. Due to his immense dedication and urge of learning how to make his own way out, he was always experimenting with the new inventions that came up day after day to assist people facing [...] Continue Reading…

The WAVE Working Wonders!!

The WAVE working wonders!

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About WAVE
Talking about the accessibility issues, WAVE is not the panacea but for sure it serves perfectly the range of experienced and laymen web developers to a good extent. This toolbar is a simple tool that extends a hand of help to create documents that are fully accessible for the people having even the slightest of difficulty in reading or recognizing text and images. It also supports groups of people having color blindness or any visual disorder.
Under the guidelines of section 508 compliance, the wave toolbar is used for evaluation of Web Pages. It is used for both – for checking the functional aspects of the web page and the order of the page. It provides a list of error checkers that in some way help deliver a better product.
This tool works with Mozilla Firefox and works as an [...] Continue Reading…