37th Annual CSUN Assistive Technology Conference Has Concluded

MS Word: Bridging the Accessibility Gaps with axesWord

Date & Time

Thursday, March 17, 2022 - 10:20 AM PST

Location

Platinum 1 (ABLE DOCS)

Description

Most people expect that you can export an accessible document from MS Word without any issue. While this may be true for very simple documents, the reality is for most documents exporting a compliant PDF from MS Word requires extra work or "dumbing down" the content to pass accessibility compliance rules. This session reviews common limitations and shortcomings to exporting accessible documents from Microsoft Word. Then we will demonstrate the effect these issues have on people using assistive technology. We will review some of the manual solutions to fixing these issues inside Adobe Acrobat. Finally we will demonstrate how to easily overcome them using the axesWord plugin to export a PDF/UA compliant document right from MS Word.

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Audience

Higher Education
Information & Communications Technology
K-12 Education
Government
Media & Publishing

Audience Level

Beginning

Session Summary (Abstract)

This session reviews common limitations and shortcomings of exporting accessible documents from Microsoft Word and how to easily overcome them using techniques in Adobe Acrobat and in the source file using axesWord.

Session Type

General Track

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