[Athen] Assistive technology plug-ins for Microsoft Word?

[Shelley Haven]

Thanks, Karen -- and congratulations on that Microsoft MVP award!

- Shelley



On Aug 19, 2009, at 3:36 AM, Karlen Communications wrote:


> There is also the Save as PDF or completely inaccessible XPS format  

> plug-in

> that lets you save documents as tagged PDF. It uses the Adobe 1.7  

> specs for

> its tagged PDF in Office 2007.

> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4d951911-3e7e-4ae6-

> b059-a2e79ed87041&displaylang=en

>

> For Word 2007 there is a Redaction tool: http:// 

> redaction.codeplex.com/

> A Redaction tool is available for 2003 but from the Microsoft site

> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=028C0FD7-67C2-4B51-

> 8E87-65CC9F30F2ED&displaylang=en

>

> Both produce accessible Redacted content in that the Redacted  

> content is

> replaced by a series of apostrophes which can be read by screen  

> readers.

>

> These are for the Windows versions as Office for Mac is not  

> accessible using

> VoiceOver so don't have any tools for that ...yet....hopefully in the

> future.

>

> BTW, In July I received a Microsoft MVP/Most Valued Professional  

> Award for

> Word! http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/

>

> Cheers, Karen

>

>

>

>

> -----Original Message-----

> From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org]  

> On

> Behalf Of Shelley Haven

> Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 5:11 AM

> To: Access Technology Higher Education Network; Alternate Media

> Subject: [Athen] Assistive technology plug-ins for Microsoft Word?

>

> Hi, all!

>

> I'm looking for plug-ins or add-ons to Microsoft Word (Mac or Windows)

> that provide it with assistive technology capabilities which are

> ordinarily supplied by separate programs.  (By "add-on" I mean

> something which becomes an integral part of the Word user interface,

> like a toolbar, without the need to open another program.)  The list

> below is what I have so far.  What others are you aware of?  (I'm sure

> I'm missing some obvious ones!)

>

> - Word's built-in Speech toolbar which provides very basic text-to-

> speech playback

> - Audio Notes toolbar in Word for Mac which synchronizes typed notes

> with recorded audio

> - WordTalk -- text-to-speech plug-in with highlighting

> <http://www.wordtalk.org.uk/

>>

> - Ginger Software -- contextual spelling and grammar checker

> <http://www.gingersoftware.com

>>

> - Ghotit plug-ins for spellcheck, dictionary, and text-to-speech

> <http://www.ghotit.com

>>

> - "Save as DAISY" translator

>

> Thanks in advance,

>  Shelley

>

> _____________________________

> Shelley Haven  ATP, RET

> Assistive Technology Consultant

> Shelley at TechPotential.net

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