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

[Jeffrey Dell]

If cost is not a consideration the Natural Reader program has a
toolbar for MS Office products.  I think the pay version is only $30.
So it is fairly inexpensive.
http://www.naturalreaders.com/
MathType also provides a Word toolbar for inserting equations and
creating MathML pages.  If you are including tools for making
accessible materials.
Jeff
Cleveland State

On 8/19/09, Shelley Haven <shelley at techpotential.net> wrote:

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

>

> - Shelley

>

>

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> 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

>>

>> _____________________________

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